The National Clean Air for Children Programme, launched last week by the Clean Air Parents’ Network and supported by environmental law organisations ClientEarth and the British Lung Foundation, calls for £153m of funding to protect babies and children from the harmful effects of air pollution.
It follows research by the World Health Organisation (WHO) showing that more than 90 per cent of children - 1.8 billion, are breathing toxic air, damaging their intelligence and leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Measures called for in the programme include banning any new nurseries, schools or playgrounds in ‘pollution hotspots’, carrying out a comprehensive air quality audit of nurseries, schools and playgrounds in known pollution hotspots and bring in traffic exclusion zones around schools, nurseries and playgrounds.
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