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Administrator(s): We have opportunities to support the delivery of the County Development Programme 2023-24 for Swimming. View details.

View the May 2023 update from the Swim England Swimming Talent Team on the 2023-24 season's Programme delivery.

Our thanks go to everyone who has supported the 2022/23 Pathway programme.

There are countless things Committee members in our affiliated Clubs could be working on, a few things they should be working on, but only one thing that should be their top priority. And that is to offer safe environments for the children and young people who engage in swimming and aquatic sport.

Updates: View Swim England announcements on
- safeguarding training requirements
- new policy on club supervision ratios

View updated guidance from the Child Protection in Sport Unit on safeguarding d/Deaf and disabled children and young people who face the same risks as all children and young people, but are at greater risk of some types of abuse.

Refresher: The Swim England Safeguarding Refresher with Mental Health and Self-harm module has just been launched and is open to anyone who has completed the Swim England Safeguarding CPD since 2020. It is one of three new safeguarding refresher modules that will be released by Swim England in 2023 and gives an overview of what safeguarding and child protection means and how to apply that in the practical situation of a club activity. View details.

Clip from Champion in Every Corner, the U.S. Center for SafeSport's Podcast

Reminder: Without the relevant and appropriate required DBS checks and safeguarding training, you must not be on poolside. If you are unsure whether you need a DBS check or safeguarding training, please consult WavePower or contact your Club Welfare Officer. Click here to book onto a safeguarding course.

Accreditation: The Swim England event accreditation system available via member options is now checking that the barred list check is in place as well as the date this expires. Due to this, members may see an in-date DBS but this element showing as a fail. Should this occur, the DBS was not one with a barred list check. If this is the case, you will need a new DBS for the appropriate role.

Please get in touch if you can help with the following:

Administrator(s): We have opportunities to support the delivery of the County Development Programme 2023-24 for Swimming. View details.

Volunteer Co-ordinator: Are you a natural leader? Do you enjoy team work? Help us make a real difference in 2023 by joining our team as our County Volunteer Co-ordinator to lead our efforts to engage, guide, support and utilise the talents of our volunteer workforce and Club Volunteer Co-ordinators.

Social Media: We have opportunities to manage our social media activity and play an active role in helping us maximise promotion of aquatics via new and existing social media and digital marketing channels. View details.

Expect: Conditions, Programme and Qualifying Times for both the 2023 Development Meet and 2024 County Championships & Age Group Competition to be published here by the end of June 2023.

View previous Promoters Conditions (Swimming) with QTs for our 2022 Development Meet and 2023 Championships & Age Group Competitions.

View stream replays, programme, results and reports where available from:

• Sette Colli (23-25 Jun, Rome) T/F
• British Masters Championships (2 to 4 Jun, Sheffield). View results and reports.
• World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup 2023 Leg 3 (27/28 May, Setubal). View results and streams.
• Citi Para Swimming World Series Leg 7 (26-28 May, Limoges). View results and streams.
• AP Race London International (27-29 May, London). View results.
• Glasgow International (26-28 May, Glasgow) View results and live stream.
• Mare Nostrum Series, Leg 3 (20/21 May, Monaco). View results and clips.
• World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup 2023 Leg 2 (20/21 May 2023, Golfo Aranci). View results and streams.
• Mare Nostrum Series, Leg 2 (17/18 May, Barcelona). View results and clips.
• Mare Nostrum Series, Leg 1 (13/14 May, Canet-en-Roussillon). View results and clips.
• Citi Para Swimming World Series Leg 6 (11-14 May Berlin). View results and streams.
• Swim England South West Summer Championships. View results and report from days 1 and 2 (22/23 Apr, Millfield) | 3 to 5 (29/30 Apr & 1 May, Plymouth)|
• Scottish National Age Group Championships (12 to 16 Apr, Aberdeen). View results and streams.
• British Swimming Championships (4 to 9 Apr, Sheffield). View reports, results and streams: : Days 1 to 3 | Days 4 to 6
• Citi Para Swimming World Series inc. British Para Swimming Meet 2023 (16 to 19 Mar, Sheffield). View results and live streams
• ESSA Inter-Divisional Championships (LC) (11/12 Mar, Coventry). View results and live streams
• Edinburgh International Swim Meet (10 to 12 Mar, Edinburgh). View results and live streams
• Swedish Grand Prix 3 (10-12 Mar, Kungsbacka). View results and live streams
• 53rd National Arena Swimming League Cup Final (5 Mar, Cardiff). View results.
• 22nd National Arena Swimming League B Final (4 Mar, Cardiff). View results.
• Lausanne Cup LC 2023 (24-26 Feb, Lausanne). View results.
• BUCS LC Championships 2023 (24-26 Feb, Sheffield). View results.
• Somerset ASA Championships (25m: 22 Jan, 50m: 28/29 Jan, 4/5 and 11/12 Feb, Millfield).
  Event list by session (opens in new window).
  Reports: SC: Day 1
  LC: Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7
  Meet Conditions and QTs and Gallery
• Middle East Open and Junior Championships 2023 (10 to 12 Feb, Dubai) results.

 
The 2022 Competitions Round-Up is now located under the Results sub-menu.

[If there are any newsworthy omissions in the daily reports and analysis of many thousands of swims, it is unintentional. Please let us know if you spot any].

Licensed Meets: With a lot of Somerset clubs seeking to license their own championships or running Meets, Kelly encourages you to use the services of swim-meet.com if you are ever short of officials or volunteers which your Club can then promote via your website and social media.

Website: Jan to May 2023 comparison vs 2022: visitors +17%; pages viewed: +5.4%.

While this appears to be good news, it is concerning that in a Financial Year Comparison Apr-May 2023 vs the same period in 2022, both our site visitors and page view totals are just over 7% down.

You can enjoy over 7900 articles, often with multimedia, in our news archive. In addition there are over 3500 curated videos in the library on our website which in total had racked up 5.88 million views as at 31 Mar. You don’t have to be sick to get better.

Social Media: While we do post regular social media updates on Facebook, our use of Twitter is currently paused for safeguarding reasons until the platform’s moderation and compliance standards improve (see Washington Post, BBC News and NPR articles).

It is for other organisations to determine which social media platforms they still feel comfortable supporting. You can check what your Club is tweeting about. View content on our own timelines.