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<p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced a range of
measures at COP26 to put climate change and sustainability at the heart of education.
These included a draft Sustainability and Climate Change strategy for the education
and children’s services systems, a new National Education Nature Park and Climate
Leaders Award.</p><p>From December 2021 to March 2022, working groups of sector representatives
and a group of young people, reflecting a diverse range of voices, backgrounds, and
experiences, will bring together feedback on the draft Sustainability and Climate
Change strategy from those they represent.</p><p>The department has set up a youth
panel to ensure we can listen to the views of young people as we further develop the
strategy. Young representatives from larger organisations such as the Student Climate
Commission, Teach the Future, the UK Sustainable Schools Network and the Green Skills
Youth Council will share the views of the children and young people from their networks
at the youth panel meetings. The department encourages all interested stakeholders
to feed their views in via these organisations.</p><p>The department will work closely
with the working groups and with delivery partners across government to refine and
build on the strategy ahead of publication of a final version in April 2022. We will
also continue to engage with a wide range of stakeholders through bi-lateral meetings
and topic specific workshops.</p><p>The department will be launching an informal online
survey early next year for interested stakeholders. We will publish the details of
the survey in the new year and will make it available to schools and young people.</p>
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