Question reference: S6W-05475
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 10 January 2022
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 January 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of children who left primary school in June (a) 2019 and (b) 2020 were able to swim, broken down by (i) sex and (ii) race.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.
However, in 2021-22, sport scotland invested approximately £1,315,600 into Scottish Swimming. Over the past five years, sport scotland has invested £6,836,282 into Scottish Swimming. Scottish Swimming developed and introduced a National Learn to Swim Framework in 2014 to support aquatic providers to enhance their community learn to swim programmes.
The Framework, which is supported by Scottish Water and delivered by aquatic partners every week already helps children to become safe, competent, and confident swimmers and these water safety themed lessons are an essential part of the Framework to help educate on water safety.