Schools are increasingly finding it hard to maintain swimming pools, and run swimming programmes.
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Three schools in Marlborough are appealing for funding to help keep their programmes going.
And schools across the country are being forced to take the cheaper option of filling pools in with concrete instead of keeping them going. But what effect does this have on children learning to swim?
Tom Parsons talks to Jesse Mulligan about the demise of school pools.
