Hundreds of schools across the UK are allowing pupils to swim in sub-standard swimming pools unaware of the risks including the dangers of entrapment.
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Once earmarked for closure by the local authority, prospects for the former Burnham Pool could not be brighter earning it the 2012 title of ASA UK Swim School of The Year.
Brighton may have more than 400 restaurants, but you hardly have to walk 50 yards before bumping into a familiar face from the pool and spa industries during the annual SPATEX exhibition weekend.
Truly, a not-to-be-missed water leisure networking event, the 2013 seaside gathering takes place from Sunday February 3 to Tuesday February 5 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Exhibition Centre.
Theo Millward, STAās Operations Director, jokes that, with hindsight, his personal New Year resolution for 2013 should have been not to do so much.
āItās been an incredibly busy and successful year for STA,ā Theo says. āBusiness-wise, membership is up, sales are up, and weāve launched some really exciting programmes across all areas of our leisure, health and safety and digital businesses.
A Swimming Teachersā Association survey has revealed a quarter of public pool users do not take a shower before entering the water, with women being the biggest offenders. The survey, of more than 2,000 swimmers, also revealed that one in four people have urinated in a public swimming pool, with one in ten confessing they had done it deliberately; men aged 18-34 years were cited as the worst culprits this time. STA is one of the worldās largest swim teaching and lifesaving organisation, and delivers the highest quality training across four key business areas ā swimming teaching, lifesaving, first aid and leisure management.
With a distinctive post-Olympics and Paralympics buzz, Leisure Industry Week, the traditional curtain-raiser to an autumn and winter season of business to business leisure exhibitions, set the 2012 show bar very high . Aimed at the commercial leisure markets, LIW offers a mixed menu to ensure it has something to offer all tastes. Read more…
As the Ā£24 billion London Olympics continues to dominate the headlines, UK leisure attention is already refocusing on grass roots sport, where funding concerns remain heightened.
A report by the Local Government Association warns that there will be severe cuts in non-statutory services by 2020 ā but it is not all bad news. Sophisticated swimming pool design continues to deliver cost-savings while offering the potential for increased income generation by attracting more visitors ā particularly the young ā into the water.
