Scarlett McNally: Building healthy habits for the new academic year

I love the new academic year. It’s full of possibilities and new routines. I experienced 20 consecutive years of my children’s new priorities and schedules beginning in September, and it still seems a much bigger deal to me than the new year in January.I went back to the school gates for this new term to see Eastbourne’s first “School Street”1—a scheme where motorised traffic is banned from the adjacent streets around participating schools at drop-off and pick-up time. It was a pleasant change to see children and adults walking and chatting in the road. The restriction of motor traffic makes walking, cycling, and scooting much easier and has huge benefits for physical activity, injury reduction, and community cohesion.We know that small changes in infrastructure and incentives can lead to larger behaviour change. For example, London’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) has reduced the number of children being driven to…
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