UDATE: 11 NOV Sadly, a young girl who was one of the near drownings mentioned below has died. The Samuel Morris Foundation extends our condolences to her family, friends and community. 10 Nov 2009 A spate of near drowning accidents has occurred this week in Queensland, with several near drownings occurring in public swimming […]
Brooke Withers Swim School – Brookvale
Brooke Withers Swim School offers a wide variety of classes for swimmers of all ages and ability levels. Their classes cater for children of all ages, special needs classes and adult learn to swim. Due to their smaller class sizes, they achieve greater individual attention for students. Our progressive learning structure is designed to; […]
A Lifetime of Caring – Newspaper Article
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 […]
SMH article – debating the nanny state
All hail Miranda Devine and her rallying forces against the nanny state…….. after all who needs a nanny state…. not me….and I’m sure not you! So how dare a government attempt to protect a vulnerable section of our community like 0-5 year olds, especially by reviewing laws which Miranda acknowledges as good…”many lives have […]
NSW – Swimming Pool Act changes
The Samuel Morris Foundation welcomes proposed changes to the NSW Swimming Pools Act announced by the NSW Government today. In particular the Foundation welcomes the improvements to requirements for all pools to have four sided fencing, the removal of exemptions from the requirement for fencing granting council powers of entry granting council power to […]
