Children: Swimming
Commons · Question 49665 · Tabled 30 Apr 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 12 May 2025
Question
Asked by Zöe Franklin
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that primary schools provide adequate (a) swimming and (b) water safety lessons.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 12 May 2025
Swimming and water safety is a compulsory element of the primary physical education (PE) national curriculum. The department works closely with sector organisations like Swim England and the Royal Life Saving Society, supporting schools to provide swimmin...