EVERY Liverpool school is set to be hit with cash penalties if they waste energy under controversial new plans.
Last night, headteachers attacked the plans which could also see schools failing to control carbon emissions named and shamed in a league table.
The plans form part of a council expenditure review amid a predicted £15m cut in its overall education pot in 2014-15 blamed on national budget deficits.
From next year, large organisations including local authorities will have to take part in the government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme which aims to cut emissions by 4.4m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year by 2020.
It will mean the council must buy allowances from the government to cover their total annual carbon emissions.
As part of the scheme, all participating organisations will be placed in league tables highlighting the best and worst performers in terms of emissions reductions.
Those at the top will receive bonuses and those at the bottom face being hit with penalties.
And the Daily Post has learned that Liverpool city council is looking at including schools in its own ranking system with those keeping emissions down rewarded while those at the bottom will be hit in the pocket.
A council report stresses the exact mechanism of the scheme “has yet to be established” but stresses the system would be a way of “giving schools an incentive to save energy”.
