Clean Air Day

This year’s Clean Air Day theme is to ‘protect our children’s health from air pollution’. It highlights the urgency to safeguard our children’s short- and long-term health from the impacts of air pollution and build a clean air future as we recover from the pandemic. The campaign is aiming to harness the “once in a lifetime opportunity” to support top-level and grassroots behaviour change to create a healthy and safe environment for our children to return to. Children are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution - starting in the womb, it can harm their health, causing or triggering asthma, damaging lung development, and can even affect their ability to learn.

Led by Global Action Plan, Clean Air Day brings together communities, businesses, schools and the health sector to:

• Improve public understanding of air pollution.
• Build awareness of how air pollution affects our health.
• Explain the easy actions we can all do to tackle air pollution, helping to protect the environment and our health.

A range of resources are available for schools on the Clean Air Day website. From a newsletter template to celebrate the day, digital leaflets and posters, school lesson plans, PR social media packs, ‘How to guides’ (organise a School Street, run a no-idling event etc.), to pledge cards and case studies.

For more information about local air pollution, please visit the KentAir website and please feel free to subscribe to our air pollution forecast email alert service, to get the latest air pollution forecasts.