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" Children are being &amp;#039;driven towards chronic ill-health&amp;#039; as a result of parents driving them to school instead of letting them walk, a charity has warned. In its latest report, entitled &amp;#039;Must Try Harder&amp;#039;, Living Streets reports that over a quarter (27 per cent) of parents drive their children to school, while one in five has\u00A0never even considered letting their child walk. This is despite the fact that 81% of parents with five to 11-year-old children walked to school when they were young. The figures come from a YouGov survey involving more than 1,000 parents and suggest that many children could be at risk of poor health in later life due to not doing enough physical activity. Tony Armstrong, chief executive of Living Streets, said there is a &amp;#039;steady decline&amp;#039; in the number of children walking to school. He claimed: &amp;#039;The walk to school is an easy way to build some exercise into a child&amp;#039;s day and should be a key element of government strategy to encourage us all to be more physically active.&amp;#039; The expert also noted that walking rates have risen by up to a third in areas where the government has supported &amp;#039;walk-to-school&amp;#039; initiatives. Read Living Streets&amp;#039; report "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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