The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has unveiled the first schools to benefit from the new Greener Schools pilot, which will enable schools to spend less on their energy bills and more on children’s education.
There are now 1,407 electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints outside schools and colleges across the UK, thanks to £3 million from the government’s Workplace Charing Scheme (WCS).
A partnership between Net Zero Buildings and Points4Plan, an app to support schools’ sustainability efforts for their 2025 Climate Action Plan, can support schools with the move towards a net zero education estate.
Oxfordshire County Council has extended its commitment to improving air quality across the county’s school estate with the addition of six new air quality monitors.
Research from the Archives of Disease in Childhood has found that every new school in England is being built in an area with unsafe levels of air pollution.