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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Amelia Hill

Parents urged to talk about water safety after rise in child drownings in England

No swimming sign at the Jubilee River in Dorney, Buckinghamshire.
No swimming sign at the Jubilee River in Dorney, Buckinghamshire. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Shutterstock

Parents are being asked to speak to their children about water safety after new data revealed an 85% increase in the number of child drownings in England between 2019 and 2022.

There were 20 drownings in 2019 to 2020 compared with 37 in 2021 to 2022, according to a report published on Thursday by the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) team at the University of Bristol.

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