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Letters / How much will ‘water safety’ cost?

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

Swimming lessons curtailed following vote

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