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CAMPAIGNERS from the region have urged the Government to take action to reduce the number of accidental deaths in water by better educating children on its dangers. Newcastle North MP Catherine McKinnell, who chairs the petitions committee in Parliament, led a debate in Westminster on Monday night. She pressed Ministers to improve the provision of water safety education in the curriculum, highlighting that “when it comes to safety knowledge is power, and education saves lives, but what we are missing is any universal availability of this life-saving knowledge.” To show what a difference this knowledge can make, she highlighted the case of Evan Chrisp from Newcastle who survived being swept into the North Sea just by remembering the ‘float to live’ technique he’d seen on minute-long advert at a cinema.