Learn to Swim is led by Scottish Swimming and Scottish Water
SWIMMING’s top European body has praised a Scots programme aimed at improving the safety of children in the water by teaching them to swim.
Learn to Swim – led by Scottish Swimming and Scottish Water – has won plaudits for its approach to teaching swimming as an important life skill.
Pia Holmen, CEO of the Danish Swimming Federation and member of Europe’s governing body for aquatic sports, Ligue Europeenne de Natation (LEN), said: “The LEN family is impressed and grateful for Scottish Swimming’s hard work in the area of Learn to Swim. LEN is not only about swimming fast in the pool. We are also working on a European Learn to Swim programme. Everybody has the right to learn to swim.”
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