Supporting vulnerable people before and during hot weather: social care managers
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This page advises social care managers on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
This page advises social care managers on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Who this guidance is for
- Main messages
- About hot weather and health
- Who is at risk?
- How to recognise heat exhaustion and heatstroke and what to do about them
- Heat exhaustion
- What to do if someone has symptoms of heat exhaustion
- Heatstroke
- How to reduce the risks of hot weather
- Preparing for hot weather
- Responding to hot weather
- Keep the home environment cool
- Keep the people you care for cool
- Prevent dehydration
- Protect those you care for from the sun
- Avoid strenuous exercise and activities
Source and licence
UK Health Security Agency
AttributionUK Health Security Agency, ‘Supporting vulnerable people before and during hot weather: social care managers’ (updated 8 July 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026