Sustainability Leadership and Climate Action Plans

Oct 8, 2024

Having a Sustainability Leader and a Climate Action Plan is an obligation for all schools from next year and we can help. Keep reading to find out about our plans and how you can get started.

A key initiative of DfE’s sustainability and climate change strategy for education is ‘sustainability leadership and climate action plans’.

The strategy states: “By 2025, all education settings will have nominated a sustainability lead and put in place a climate action plan”. This includes early years settings, schools, multi-academy trusts, colleges, and universities. Sustainability leadership could be a group of people or an individual responsible for the development and implementation of a climate action plan.

A climate action plan is a detailed plan to enable your education setting, or trust, to progress or commence sustainability initiatives.

Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS) and CDEC are working together to support Cumbrian schools to develop their initial 3 year Climate Action Plan. Working with school leaders, teachers, office and ancillary staff as well as pupils and the wider community, we are committed to enabling your setting to identify and train your sustainability leads, develop Climate Action Plans and offer ongoing support, guidance and connection.

How we can support you:

Setting off:

Join a meeting of the Sustainability Leaders Network on Wednesday 4th December at 3.45pm where we'll help you shape and develop your plans with information and next steps.

Sign up for the meeting here

Developing your approach:

CDEC will lead on this- £50 pp for a half day session or £400 for 6 or more staff.

This stage will also include matching schools with resources and experts, including through CAfS and sustainability networks, the national climate ambassadors programme and general ongoing support from CDEC plus opportunities to connect with other Sustainability Leads and schools to learn from each other, share resources and ideas.

Sustain/Embed:

Choose some or all of the training courses below. This strand is fed throughout, offering you in-person training opportunities to enable implementation, development of all key aspects of the strategy/ action plan, curriculum enhancement, pedagogical approaches.

This package of support is designed to be flexible and responsive to your individual needs as a school.

Please fill in this short form to get started and we’ll arrange a conversation with you to work out the best way to take things forward.