Lack of supervision behind child drownings

By Dominica Sanda
Updated April 18 2018 - 3:43am, first published 3:34am
Children who drown in Australian aquatic facilities often have no adult supervision, a report shows.
Children who drown in Australian aquatic facilities often have no adult supervision, a report shows.

A lack of parental or carer supervision at aquatic facilities is behind nearly three-quarters of all the drowning deaths of Australian children at such swimming pools, new research reveals.

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