Question follow-through · 23489
Water: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that the risks of (a) cold water, (b) open water and (c) drowning are covered in the national curriculum.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that the risks of (a) cold water, (b) open water and (c) drowning are covered in the national curriculum.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
Swimming and water safety is a vital life skill and that is why pupils are taught to swim and how to be safe in and around water at primary school. Swimming and water safety are compulsory elements of the primary physical education (PE) curriculum at key ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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