Campaigners call for Government to do more to tackle air pollution around nurseries and schools
Annette Rawstrone
Thursday, June 17, 2021
More than a quarter (27 per cent) of UK schools - including nursery, primary, secondary and sixth forms - are in areas above World Health Organisation (WHO) air pollution limits, research launched for today’s Clean Air Day 2021 (Thursday) has found.
![Nearly 8,000 schools and nurseries in the UK are in areas above the WHO PM2.5 limit of 10ug/m3, nearly all of them in England](/media/219216/adobestock_145718262_traffic-boy-on-bike.jpeg?&width=780&quality=60)
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