Many schools yet to restart swimming lessons post-lockdown200 pools have closed permanently since start of pandemicChildren are being urged to go back to the swimming pool after figures showed more than two million schoolchildren in
England lost out on lessons during the pandemic.
Swim England, the sport’s governing body, is concerned children have not only missed out on physical exercise provided by swimming lessons but may not return as pools open again, with schools prioritising other aspects of education to catch up on time lost to the pandemic.