Swimming classes for your baby can be great fun and a rewarding time spent with your child while teaching them an important life skill. Programmes can teach vital water confidence and safety skills from birth.

Through carefully structured training, babies can be taught life saving skills such as turning onto their backs or, following a sudden submersion, swimming to the nearest solid object. They grow familiar with what it feels like to fall into water, so that should they ever accidentally fall in they are far less likely to panic and drown.