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What we want

Our policy asks for England

We're campaigning for Education Secretary implement our 4 specific policy asks:

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Policy asks by nation
  1. Review and revision of DfE’s Sustainability and Climate Change strategy to include measurable targets and provision of sufficient funding to deliver it.
  2. Adoption of our Climate Education Bill by Government.
  3. Inclusion of the climate emergency and ecological crisis in teacher training and a new professional teaching qualification.
  4. Substantial investment for the retrofitting of existing educational buildings.

You can read our full asks for more details. We hope that these asks will achieve our vision of broad climate and environmental education.

Our Climate Education Bill (in England and Wales) is currently making its way through parliament. If passed, it would integrate sustainability throughout the curriculum. For more information on the bill and what it would mean, read our briefing for MPs.

You can get in touch with us at england@teachthefuture.uk.

Policy documents

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Our Curriculum for a Changing Climate

A briefing for our Climate Education Bill, including what we want to change, the opportunity our Bill presents and what the implentation of the Bill would mean.

Our full asks we want to see from the current UK government. As education in the UK is a devolved matter, these asks apply primarily just to education in England - we have separate policy asks for education in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

An outline of the changes our Climate Education Bill would enact regarding education in England and Wales.

The Department for Education released their final version of their Climate Change and Sustainability Strategy in 2022. This is our formal response.

Report on the estimated costs of achieving Net Zero in Primary and Secondary Schools in the United Kingdom. Prepared by Energise (pro-bono) for Teach the Future. September 2023.

Teach the Future responded to a letter recieved from Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, which we found to be out of touch with the reality of the education system.

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