Francesca Rudkin: Sometimes things that help kids aren't that hard - money for libraries for instance

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 23, 2023 · 2m

About five years ago we started talking about how school pools where being closed. 165 school pools had closed in the previous five years and more were at risk of closing due of health and safety or maintenance costs.

The big losers were, of course, the kids.

We want our children to know how to be safe around water, especially with our drowning figures.

But with schools struggling to build enough classrooms, let alone manage a pool only used for part of the year, it wasn’t a surprise to see schools find alternative ways to teach children water safety.

Even more appallingly, a recent Listener…