Following Monday’s decision of the education and families committee to embed water safety in the school curriculum, has anyone considered if the cost will be more or less than the £50,000 projected annual saving to be achieved by reducing the teaching of swimming, and how will this embedding be done?
Peter Campbell
Lerwick
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