We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Make the right choices when visiting beaches, rivers and lakes this summer.
Employment Tribunal decision.
Weirs, currents, and underwater structures all pose hazards, warns the Environment Agency
Mobile swimming pool programme has helped 30,000 school children learn to swim.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Make the right choices when visiting beaches, rivers and lakes this summer
An area of the River Thames in Oxford and a coastal area in the Isle of Wight have been put forward for bathing water status
Four swimming spots in England are being considered to become designated bathing water sites from this spring.
Warning as warm temperatures see more people out on the river.
The Environment Agency is monitoring 419 bathing water sites across England until 30 September
The ASC has been commissioned to provide advice on policy questions related to use of the forced swim test under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Sites in Rutland, Plymouth and Suffolk will receive bathing water status from May.
The British High Commission has donated a swimming pool hoist to the National Sports Council to assist people with disabilities in accessing the Roche Caiman swimming pool.
The Environment Agency is monitoring 149 bathing water sites across Devon and Cornwall until 30 September.
New statistics show the number of designated bathing waters meeting highest quality standard is the the most since 2015
A group of six servicemen from the Battle Back scheme have spent a week in Gibraltar honing their skills at the Army Swimming Team's training camp.
It is important that the water people swim in is clean and healthy and this is what these designations are all about.
This summer people can take a dip at more bathing beaches than ever before along the English coastline.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).