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Active Travel Innovation Fund will invite bold new projects to enable more people to walk, wheel or cycle.

New junior active travel inspectors will work with teachers and parents to assess local walking and cycling routes around their schools.

Ministers are backing a coalition of twelve of England’s Combined Authority Mayors who have signed an ambitious joint statement pledging to create a national active travel network, enabling millions of happier, healthier and greener journeys from Berwick to Bristol.

Millions of people will benefit from 300 miles of new walkways and cycle lanes thanks to almost £300 million in funding to boost walking, wheeling and cycling in England.

Millions more school runs across the country can now be transformed to be healthier, safer, greener and more active, thanks to new government guidelines published today.

Newly funded projects will provide even more people, especially in rural and deprived areas, the choice to travel by walking, wheeling or cycling.

More children will have access to walk to school and cycle training programmes over the next 2 years, giving them better road skills.

A total of £13.9 million is being provided to 11 local authorities over 3 years, for active travel social prescribing pilots.

Eleven local authorities in England have been funded to enable health workers prescribe walking and cycling to patients.

As a statutory consultee, Active Travel England will help planning authorities implement good walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure.