The Department for Education will publish detailed plans on meeting its sustainability targets following pressure from a committee of MPs.
In a letter to the House of Commons’ environmental audit committee (EAC) in December, published today, Baroness Barran, the DfE’s minister for the school system and student finance, defended the department’s record on safeguarding the education estate from the effects of climate change such as flooding, overheating and water scarcity.
This comes in response to criticism from the committee late last year, which said the department’s school rebuilding programme was behind schedule and that the risks facing schools and colleges were “not adequately understood” by education leaders.
The EAC has been conducting an inquiry into the environmental sustainability of the DfE.
