A review by an expert panel of child drownings between 2006 and 2015 found the majority of pools involved had safety compliance issues — with malfunctioning self-closing gates top of the list. The ...

In response to the alarming number of children who had drowned in backyard swimming pools, the Australian government introduced strict pool fencing laws in 1991. The result of these laws was a ...

THE mother of this two-year-old boy filmed her son climbing the fence surrounding their pool, as a warning to parents about how easily kids can drown. That was all it took for Wendy Atkinson’s ...