WorkSafe has charged Victoria’s Education Department with failing to do everything it could have to ensure the safety of an eight-year-old boy who drowned in a public pool while on a school camp two years ago.
Cooper Onyett, a year 2 student at Merrivale Primary School in Warrnambool, drowned at a Port Fairy swimming pool during his first overnight school camp in May 2021.
The management of Belfast Aquatics Community Pool and Fitness Centre has also been charged, WorkSafe announced on Friday.
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