The council said it will look for suitable sites for warm banks in the coming weeks
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“Extreme weather is becoming the norm and if there’s a cold snap, there is a real chance that people will become severely unwell or even freeze to death this winter.” “We can’t accept warm banks as just another feature of our failed social security system, like we’ve seen with food banks over the past decade of austerity.
He said: “It is a sad indictment of failed energy policy in the UK that we are having to talk about providing warm places for people to spend the day because the cost of energy is becoming unaffordable for far too many of our citizens.
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