Climate awareness training for senior staff and councillors between 01/01/2015 and 15/08/2024
Case reference FOI2024/01414
Received 20 August 2024
Published 9 September 2024
Request
I would like information about your council’s climate awareness training in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information may be held by the HR department or other departments that organise staff training.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
a. Have all senior management received climate awareness training, including Carbon Literacy or equivalent, before 15th August 2024? Please state the type of training.
We are seeking information for senior managers who have had climate awareness training that has taken place since 1st January 2015 and up until 15th August 2024. We define senior management as including all Chief Executives, deputy Chief Executives and Directors or Heads of Departments, or equivalents, depending on what each council calls them.
b. Have all current councillors in the cabinet or committee chairs received climate awareness training, including Carbon Literacy or equivalent, since being elected from May 2023 or before? Please state the type of training.
We don’t expect councillors who were elected in May 2024, or since, to have already been trained. We are only seeking information for cabinet or committee chairs who have taken climate awareness training that has taken place since 1st January 2015 and up until 15th August 2024.
This could be training certified by the Carbon Literacy Project or another organisation, university or in-house. We want to know the number of people who have attended the training. We don’t need to know the number of staff that have received a certificate of completion or attendance.
Response
I would like information about your council’s climate awareness training in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information may be held by the HR department or other departments that organise staff training.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
a. Have all senior management received climate awareness training, including Carbon Literacy or equivalent, before 15th August 2024? Please state the type of training.
We are seeking information for senior managers who have had climate awareness training that has taken place since 1st January 2015 and up until 15th August 2024. We define senior management as including all Chief Executives, deputy Chief Executives and Directors or Heads of Departments, or equivalents, depending on what each council calls them.
Answer: The Service Area have advised we do not hold information pre-July 2015 as July 2015 is as far back as our learning records go in the system, and since July 2015 we have no training records referencing “carbon literacy” or “climate awareness”.
However, an online staff “Climate Change” training module was introduced in April 2022, which is still current, and the number of senior managers to have received training since April 2022 up to 15th August is 26.
b. Have all current councillors in the cabinet or committee chairs received climate awareness training, including Carbon Literacy or equivalent, since being elected from May 2023 or before? Please state the type of training.
We don’t expect councillors who were elected in May 2024, or since, to have already been trained. We are only seeking information for cabinet or committee chairs who have taken climate awareness training that has taken place since 1st January 2015 and up until 15th August 2024.
This could be training certified by the Carbon Literacy Project or another organisation, university or in-house. We want to know the number of people who have attended the training. We don’t need to know the number of staff that have received a certificate of completion or attendance.
Answer: The Service Area have advised the following training have been offered to all members recently, however we do not hold the attendance information as all sessions were non-mandatory:
30/06/23 Economic Plan and Economy and Place Board – Overview of Herefordshire’s economic challenges and opportunities, 2050 Economic vision and delivery plan.
03/10/23 Cllr Climate Change Adaptation workshop
13/06/22 All Member Briefing on Herefordshire Citizens' Climate Assembly
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