Australian water safety experts are urging parents to enrol children in swimming lessons before summer to make up for lost time during the pandemic when hundreds of thousands of children aged seven to 10 years were deprived of life-saving skills | ...
A new campaign from Portugal aims to lift awareness that drowning is a silent killer.In Portugal, an innovative advertisement by the Portuguese Association for Child Safety uses a heavy metal band to show that drowning is silent. “If a heavy metal band can’t make itself heard inside a swimming pool, can a child do it?” it asks.Scarr expects this year’s national drowning toll to be even worse than in 2020-21 when it rose by 20 per cent to 294 fatal drownings.
“This year’s public education will focus on a generation of children who have missed swimming lessons; the hundreds of thousands of children seven, eight, nine and 10 years [old] who missed out on swimming lessons,” he said.