Children are breathing dirty air – and parents are being left to fix it | Maria Miller and Ed Miliband

Clean Air for Children is a new parent-led programme to tackle air pollution near schools. When will the government act too?

For parents, there is nothing worse than worrying about the health and wellbeing of your child. Unfortunately, we have now reached the point where across the UK the air that children are breathing is damaging their health.

In many areas of public health we have rightly taken action to protect children, such as guidelines on what pregnant women can safely consume or banning smoking in cars with children. But when it comes to air pollution we do not know how many of our children are being put at risk just from going to school.

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