Starting your ESDGC selfassessment

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Starting your ESDGC self-assessment

• Julie Hanson-Williams
• www.esdgc.co.uk

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Evaluating your current position

• How are the principles of ESDGC reflected in your
  organisation?

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For each of the four sections

• Evaluate your current position
• Identify areas requiring action
• Complete Action Plan and submit to DCELLS by
  31st October 2009
• Take action
• Monitor and evaluate impact.

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Hints and Tips before you start

• Adopt a whole organisation approach.
• Set up an ESDGC working group with senior
  management representation.
• Identify responsibility for updating action plan.
  
• Organise regular meetings to discuss action plan
• monthly or at least quarterly for first year
• track and record progress
• identify gaps and challenges.

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Hints and Tips before you start

• Providers vary in size and are at different
  stages in addressing ESDGC
• self evaluation will help you understand your
  position.
• You do not have to be performing well in
  everything
• demonstrate awareness of strengths and areas for
  improvement
• be honest and plan action to address gaps
• develop a phased approach where appropriate
• plan for continuous improvement.

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How to Evaluate

• All key requirement statements are combined into
  one overall Evaluation and Planning for Action
  Checklist to aid evaluation and planning.
• The Checklist forms the basis for your completed
  Action Plan.
• It will enable you to see where you are making
  the most improvements and where you need to
  improve at a glance.

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How to Evaluate

• Use a structured and systematic approach to
  evaluate your current position.
• Concentrate on one section at a time (Sections
  1-4).
• Read the guidance within each section (background
  information etc) where necessary.

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How to Evaluate

• As a team, use the Checklist, and
• Evaluate your current position against each of
  the key requirement statements
• Determine whether appropriate first-hand,
  up-to-date evidence is easily available
• Identify areas requiring action
• This will form the basis of your ESDGC Action
  Plan which you will need to submit to DCELLS
  (Template Appendix 1).

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Starting your ESDGC self-assessment

• Exercise 1

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Checklist Key
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Commitment and Leadership

• Implementing a culture of ESDGC throughout the
  organisation
• clear strategic direction and vision from senior
  management
• involving all key internal and external
  stakeholders.
• Leaders and managers need to
• be fully aware of, and apply the principles of
  ESDGC and
• ensure a culture of ESDGC is implemented
  throughout the entire organisation
• through effectively joining up all the common
  areas contained within the ESDGC Strategy.

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Commitment and Leadership

• Commence evaluation

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Organisational Management

• WBL provider organisations are varied in terms of
  delivery models, size and estates.
• Some have responsibility for their own
  buildings/estates, others do not.
• The scope of this topic area will vary according
  to the characteristics of your organisation
• Many of the areas covered in this section will
  mean that some providers will only need to adopt
  a lighter touch.

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Organisational Management

• Commence evaluation

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Teaching and Learning

• To develop the necessary skills, knowledge and
  values and thereby enable learners to make
  informed decisions and choices for the future.
• Much is probably already being delivered without
  realising it!

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7 Key Themes
Wealth and Poverty
All 7 themes should be considered when planning
or auditing programmes
Choices and Decisions
Climate Change
ESDGC
Consumption and Waste
Natural Environment
Identity and Culture
Healthy Living
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Hints and Tips Practical Solutions

• Start early learner handbooks induction
• Keep it going integrate into
• ERR
• Health and Safety
• Key/Basic Skills
• Welsh Baccalaureate

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Practical Solutions

• Use topical themes or issues
• Relate aspects of ESDGC to
• Positive practices within the workplace eg
• recycling consumables and other materials
• implementation of energy saving measures
• reduction of fuel consumption.
• Learners personal activities eg
• volunteering, local community, fund-raising.

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Vocational qualifications, naturally occurring
opportunities

• Hairdressing key requirement Safe
  storage/disposal of chemicals
• Extend scope to enhance ESDGC coverage
• Manufacture processes and human welfare
• Transportation and impact on environment
• Use of water to dispose
• Fresh, drinking water (local .. global)

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Vocational qualifications, naturally occurring
opportunities

• Beauty Promote additional products or services
• Range of products, equipment supply
  chain/product lifecycle impact from cradle to
  grave
• Where manufactured, processes, composition,
  ingredients
• Environmental impact of industries/processes
• Workforce conditions human health and welfare
• Movement of resources
• Profit distribution
• Local and global
• Eco-friendly, ethically sourced, fair-trade
• Retailing in the salon use of plastic bags

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Catering

• Sustainability issues in food production and
  consumption.
• Fresh, seasonal, local fruit and vegetables v out
  of season/imported.
• Locally sourced foods (bring in Welsh and global
  perspectives).

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ESDGC
Map
Delivery
Qualifications
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Review and evaluate

• Provide time to review and evaluate.
• Use activities and/or prepare questions to
• enable learners to identify their own
  contributions, learning and impact
• gain an indication of learner perceptions of
  their levels of knowledge and confidence.
• Capture attitudes prior to commencing a topic
  compare with attitudes afterwards.

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Teaching and Learning

• Commence evaluation

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Community and Partnerships

• Partnerships is a broad definition encompassing
• internal staff and students
• external stakeholders such as community and
  voluntary groups
• public sector bodies and
• employers.

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Hints and Tips

• Identify a manager with responsibility for
  overview of partnerships.
• Investigate potential partnerships, external
  specialists, projects, funding.
• Develop links and consult with
• local, regional, national and global partners
• involve minority/under-represented groups.

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Hints and Tips

• Creating more sustainable communities
• Volunteering activities/projects
• Meeting local community needs
• Sharing facilities
• Purchasing local companies and economies
  benefit.
• Encourage stakeholders to take the message
  seriously.
• Share good practice with other providers.

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Businesses have crucial role in contributing to
a sustainable Wales

• Develop resource efficiency
• within organisation
• through supply chains
• improving productivity and competitiveness
• Reduce waste
• Develop environmental and sustainability policies
  and targets
• Monitor performance resource use report
  publicly on them
• Engage with workforce
• adopting sustainable practices
• encouraging employees to become sustainable
  champions in their own communities
• Engage with and support local communities.

One Wales One Planet (Consultation on a new SD
scheme for Wales)
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Community and Partnerships

• Commence evaluation

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Review of session

• Starting evaluation of current position
• Any questions arising?
• Next steps Action Planning ..