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12.1.1

The committee considered a report providing an
overview of the Built for Change programme and progress so far, and
seeks the formal authorisation of the committee to create a grant
fund, including approving the eligibility criteria.

 

 

12.1.2

The Built for Change programme is a Sheffield
City Council led, cross-sector partnership of organisations which
has been established to support education providers and their young
people to take action on climate change by both reducing emissions
and preparing to adapt to the increasingly extreme weather they are
facing

 

 

12.2

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: That the
Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy Committee –
 
(a) 
Notes the overview of the Built for Change programme and progress
to date as set out in this report.
(b) 
Approves the creation of a grant fund of up to £300,000, from
which individual grants will be paid, to support educational
settings to adapt to the changing climate, including approving the
eligibility criteria as set out in sections 2.3 to 2.8 of this
report.

 

 

12.3

Reasons for
Decision

 

 

12.3.1

Creating a grant fund and establishing the
Built for Change programme is considered to be the most efficient
way of providing financial support and maximising funding to
educational settings to help them adapt to the changing climate and
tackle the climate emergency.

 

 

12.4

Alternatives
Considered and Rejected

 

 

12.4.1

Alternative Option 1: The public health grant
allocation for the Built for Change Programme includes
£250,000 of support to commission interventions within
education settings. We considered procuring and project managing
interventions in house.

 

 

12.4.2

This option was initially rejected in
principle because delivery in house would be likely to be worse
value for money, more complicated and slower than education
settings commissioning their own interventions. It remained a
potential option until settings were selected in June 2025 to
ensure that the selected settings would be capable of procuring and
project managing their own interventions. This is the reason for
bringing this decision for approval at this point in process.

 

 

12.4.3

Alternative Option 2: Not funding teaching or
staff time for schools was considered to maximise funding available
for interventions. This option was rejected because Teaching and
Learning Responsibility payments and contracts for teaching staff
are widely considered to be good practice and will also minimise
any risk to delivery of the programme, to the learning experience
of children and to excessive demands on school staff.