On Sunday November 1, the Sun Herald newspaper run features on child safety. Samuel, and the Samuel Morris Foundation featured in one of the stories which you can see here.
As the article points out, children disabled by near drowning are an often forgotten part of the debate about water safety and drowning prevention. The Samuel Morris Foundation aims to rectify this and make people aware of the consequences of non fatal drowning incidents.
We would like to thank Rachel Brown for her article, and for helping to bring awareness to this issue.
We would also like to thank the photographer Adam Hollingsworth, he was a pleasure to work with, but what we really appreciated was the way in which he spoke to Samuel. He addressed all questions about Samuel directly to Samuel, sadly too many people speak about children like Samuel as if they are not present. Thanks Adam!
Also today (Monday 2 Nov) a SMH letter which you can read here, helps to spell out the case for mandatory inspections, and the maths involved is pretty simple, and reflective of the case in WA where mandatory inspections have been undertaken for years.
If it can be done in one jurisdiction, why can’t it be done in others. The only sensible and sustainable way to maintain the integrity of home pool fencing is for them to be regularly inspected, and for the cost of a few bags of salt, or chlorine many childrens lives could be saved. Are pool owners really that stingy, or selfish that they will shirk at this cost to help save childrens lives? I hope not.
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