Federal government estimates 12m swimming lessons were missed in the 18 months to December 2021
that 12m swimming lessons were missed in the 18 months to December 2021, which Scarr said is having “a huge, potentially generational, impact on children’s swimming skills”.
Royal Life Saving is lobbying the government to develop a “specific, targeted strategy” with investment in the upcoming budget for lessons for at-risk groups including children in regional areas, from low socioeconomic backgrounds, migrants and refugees, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
On Tuesday the emergency management minister, Murray Watt, said “all of us are distressed when we see this sort of thing happen too often over summer and there’s a very large number [of drownings] this particular summer”. “Obviously we see people lose their lives on beaches, but there’s many people who lose their lives in our internal waterways as well,” he told ABC News Breakfast.
“And there does seem to be some evidence that swimming lessons haven’t been taken up as much through Covid and that probably is something that governments need to look at because we obviously want to make sure that people are kept safe no matter where they are.”
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