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GUIDANCE

The following provides a set of questions to help you build or cross-check your Emergency Action Plan (EAP) for emergency evacuations within a leisure centre environment. Controlled evacuations are addressed separately. The following questi...

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A 16-year-old John Rudderham from Hull went to the Atlantic Water Park in Scarborough on the afternoon of Sunday, 18 June 2000, where he would later have an epileptic seizure in the pool and drown (The ...

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Kajil Devi, from Hanworth in Middlesex, was 15 years old and on holiday with her family when she drowned at Cotswold Country Park on Sunday, 11 July 2010. She enjoyed a barbeque with her parents, her 20-ye...

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On Sunday, 3 July 1988, Robert O’Shea went to the Kingfisher Leisure Pool at Kingston-upon-Thames, owned and operated by the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames (“the Council”). Mr O’Shea had never vi...

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Eight-year-old Kaimen Ward swam at the Stone Cross Pool at Hambleton Leisure Centre, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, on Wednesday, 25 August 2010. He was accompanied by his twin sister, Hope-Ella, and t...

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A 12-year-old boy, Muhammad Talha Baber, known as “Talha”, drowned at Newlands School on Friday, 1 July 2011, whilst on an educational holiday at Eastbourne Road, an activity centre in Seaford (UK) (Asi...

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A seven-year-old boy (“AA”), whose name was withheld by the Court, was one of several children who attended a three-day Summerfest event at St Edmond’s Independent School, St Thomas' Hill, on Friday, 1 ...

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Five-year-old Joshua Curtis-Moore, from Sale, Cheshire, was on holiday at the Castaways Beach Hotel, Porth, Newquay, with his parents (Mr Shaun Curtis-Moore and Ms Joanna Williamson) when on Tuesday 19t...

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Harjeet Kaur Rathor, from Leeds, was five years old when, on the afternoon of Sunday, 4 August 2007, she went swimming with a large family group at the Dome Leisure Centre in Doncaster, South Yorkshire ...