Ariel view of a school building.

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. 

Cardiff university.

The Welsh government has invested over £20 million towards helping universities cut down on their emissions.

Teacher holds up Scottish flag to children.

Thanks to £53.4 million investment from the Scottish government, first minister John Swinney has opened two new schools in Dunfermline, Fife.

Essex County Council has opened a new net zero building, Limebrook Primary School, and pupils are settling in for the new term.

The government has pledged £1.4 billion ahead of the autumn Budget to meet a target of rebuilding 50 schools in England a year.

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.

 Bellevue Place Education Trust

A report by eEnergy examines the environmental and financial impact of installing energy efficiency and waste reduction measures in schools.

Sixty-eight per cent of teachers responding to a NEU survey have stated they work in buildings which have leaks from the rain.

The Public Accounts Committee has highlighted that the country’s school buildings and special educational needs provision need major investment.

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.

Jeremy Miles, education minister, has announced new capital funding of around £12.5 million to improve school and college buildings throughout Wales.

British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) has commissioned a survey into the condition of more than 900 schools. 

£800m schools upgrade in Scotland

25 new schools and campuses are to be constructed or refurbished to provide modern, state of the art learning facilities in Scotland.

Proposals for new schools to be delivered more speedily

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced unprecedented reforms to speed up the deli

£200 million to transform college buildings

Further education colleges will receive a new funding boost to ‘build back better’ and kick-start work to upgrade their buildings and estates.

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