Glasgow school girls are less likely to exercise after age 11 according to a local councillor who has raised concerns about the number of young people leaving school unable to swim.
She also claimed that the amount of activity girls take part in remains the same as boys until the age of 11 before it “drops off a cliff”.The issue was raised at the most recent operations and scrutiny committee meeting where officers agreed that learning how to swim was valuable and this may be something that could be discussed at a future education committee.
“It strikes me that it is a very important life skill but it is also something that is a good recreational activity. “It seems to me that swimming is an ideal way of encouraging people to be involved and if there was some kind of measure about how many young people leave school without that skill - I think it would be very useful to have.A council officer said that the comment about the value of swimming was “quite right” and that it might be something that they could bring back as part of education to the committee.