The Bevan Foundation report said some families also plunged themselves into debt or went without food in an effort to afford to heat their homes.
It warns the Assembly Government will not meet its target of eliminating fuel poverty by 2018 with its current approach.
A developed country where heating and food is on ration
by Aled Blake,
Western Mail
After a week that saw children in deprived areas handed advice on keeping warm and shock at the standard of living in some of the country’s poorest parts, Aled Blake asks why a developed country like Wales continues to be riddled with inequalities in the 21st century
PROSPECTS for people living in Wales’ most deprived areas could not be more starkly contrasted to those in wealthier parts.
Children are growing up in homes their parents cannot afford to heat properly and it is affecting their health and education – and, ultimately, their prospects in life.
Carbon Trading's Credibility Goes Up In Smoke Of Fraud
Joshua Chaffin,
Financial Times
The carbon market is now riven with distrust. More broadly, the thefts have battered the credibility of the EU’s chief instrument in the fight against global warming.
Just before lunch one Tuesday in mid-January, the public address system at Jiri Stastny’s office in Prague ordered all employees to evacuate: someone had called in a bomb threat.
Police crawled over the building for more than three hours. Officers conducted a sweep of the seventh-floor offices of OTE, the company of which Mr Stastny is director that manages the Czech Republic’s part of the European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions trading system. Nothing seemed amiss.
