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Help Is Coming To Keep Your Kids Safe This Summer

Fence the pool, shut the gate! The Australian Government are teaching your kids about water safety – for free!

Fence the pool, shut the gate! We all know how the song goes, it’s pretty much an Aussie classic. Summer can be a time of fun in the sun and water, but it is also a time to be extra careful about your children’s water safety.

The Australian Government are teaching kids about water safety and it’s all for free! Fifty thousand Australian pre-schools, ELCs and playgroups will now have DVDs, songs and books to teach your kids to ‘do the five’ and keep safe this Summer.

Minister for Health and Sport, Sussan Ley, urged all families and teachers involved with young children to use the free water safety education resources, proudly supported by the Australian Government, that will be provided over the next two weeks. The resource packs are part of the Kids Alive Do the Five program developed by Laurie Lawerence. The program will receive $1 million from the Federal Government this financial year.

 

Children under five years old are a priority for the Government’s water safety initiatives. The 2016 Drowning Report released by the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia found that the number of children under five who drowned was 30 percent below the 10-year average. A DVD on infants’ water safety, produced by Mr Lawrence as part of the Kids Alive program, is also going to be distributed to new mothers in hospitals throughout the country.

You can find the water safety curriculum materials and other water safety resources on the Kids Alive website for free.

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