This October, pupils around the globe are walking to school to celebrate International Walk to School Month – and Living Streets is encouraging British families to do the same.
For many of us, walking is an easy and inexpensive way to keep active and spend time with friends and family, but less than half of primary school children walk to school in England today, compared with 70% in the 1970s.
And with notable increases in air pollution, rising childhood inactivity and post-lockdown poor mental health, encouraging children to be more active and ditching the school run in the car for more sustainable modes of transport is more important than ever.