 Later this year we'll be implementing a new regulatory approach. Based on a new single assessment framework, the framework includes a quality statement on environmental sustainability.
Through our regulatory approach, our inspectors may consider how providers have made efforts to become more environmentally sustainable.
The environmental sustainability quality statement, under well-led, will be looking at how providers are considering their overall carbon footprint and how they are acting to reduce it.
The term ‘carbon footprint’ refers to the total amount of greenhouse gas emitted by an organisation, individual, service or product.
This relates to:
· Regulation 17: Good Governance
In addition to this, climate change adaptation will be assessed in the quality statement ‘safe environments’ and within ‘Governance, management and sustainability’. Within these quality statements steps taken to adapt to the effects of climate change will be looked at e.g. adverse weather plans.
To support the development of our work in this area we have organised a series of focus groups, each specific to professionals from a specific sector in health and social care.
Sign up to share feedback on your understanding and experience of incorporating environmental sustainability into your work and help us to appropriately introduce this focus into our new regulatory approach.
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