On Thursday Sadiq Khan announced a new £1m fund to help protect children at schools and nurseries in the most polluted parts of London from toxic air.
The mayor’s first report into indoor air pollution in schools reveals that pollution is higher inside classrooms than outside.
The report by University College London and the University of Cambridge assessed indoor air quality at five London primary schools and one nursery. The schools studied were a nursery and primary school in a modern building in the suburbs away from busy traffic, an urban Victorian school next to a high traffic street, two urban Victorian schools away from high traffic streets, and a suburban modern school close to a major street.
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