Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will undertake a full consultation on its draft Sustainability and Climate Change strategy for the education and children’s services systems.
Since the department’s draft Sustainability and Climate Change strategy for the education and children’s services systems was launched in November 2021, a user group of sector representatives and a group of young people, reflecting a diverse range of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, have met monthly to feedback on the draft strategy from those networks and organisations they represent. Working groups, of stakeholders and experts, on each action area within the strategy have also met to discuss the proposals in detail and feed in via representatives on the user group.
We are working closely with these groups and with delivery partners across government to refine and build on the strategy ahead of publication of a final version in April 2022.
The department is also engaging with a wide range of stakeholders through bilateral meetings and topic specific workshops. We have furthermore launched a feedback survey and have invited all interested parties to submit views to the department’s sustainability mailbox at dfe.sustainability@education.gov.uk.
Our engagement process has been designed to ensure we engage meaningfully with a wide range of stakeholders in a variety of different ways to ensure we have maximum impact and can focus on strategic delivery as soon as possible.