Advanced Certificate in the Role of the Designated Sustainability Lead

As part of the DfE’s sustainability and climate change strategy, all education settings should have a nominated sustainability lead who has put in place a climate action plan by 2025. These leaders should drive effective whole-setting approaches to the challenges of sustainability and climate change, particularly in the way settings are operated and regulated.

This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to understand your role as a leader in climate change and sustainability and meet environmental expectations on operations, estates and infrastructure.

Please note: The course consists of learning through video, task completion and further reading/research. Please consider this when planning and allocating your time. To successfully understand and achieve the objectives of the course, learners are expected to engage in all aspects of the learning process and complete all relevant activities to ensure they can successfully apply the knowledge and skills they have gained in their own setting.

Policies

• Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems

Learning outcomes

• Understanding how to embed change as part of a whole-setting approach and support objectives in line with operational targets and supply chains.
• Recognising how to drive up sustainability standards and implement processes and procedures in line with DfE expectations.
• Understanding government environmental expectations on new and existing buildings and plans to deliver a greener, more sustainable education estate.
• Recognising different ways that leaders can aim improve their estate’s biodiversity, flood risk and air quality and improve the resilience of current buildings.
• Realising government objectives on delivering better heating solutions and its water strategy to improve efficiency, resilience and more sustainable drainage solution.