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• Community testing stepped up as city bids to drive down infection rate
  Thousands of tests are being carried out in Leicester each day as part of the city’s strategy to bring down the coronavirus infection rate.
  
  
• School achieves the prestigious Gold Food for Life award
  Overdale Junior School achieves the prestigious Gold Food for Life award during Coronavirus pandemic.
  
  
• £8.1 million scheme will create hundreds of extra SEND school places
  More than £8.1 million is to be invested in a programme of creating new school places and provisions for children with additional educational needs.
  
  
• Relationships, Sex and Education (RSE) Day
  To mark RSE Day the Sex Education Forum produced a new evidence infographic.
  
  
• City’s COVID-19 Transport Recovery Plan published
  A comprehensive document setting out how Leicester’s transport system can best meet the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic and help the city’s economy to recover, as well as securing longer-term environmental benefits, has been published by the city council.
  
  
• Food for Life offers FREE membership to schools
  The biggest national school healthy eating programme, Food for Life, has today announced that it is offering free membership to schools during the coronavirus pandemic.