Gavin Walker: Acting CEO of Water Safety NZ calls for ban on unfenced above-ground pools - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

There are calls for a Government crackdown on some temporary pools, after five deaths in the past decade.

Coroner Heidi Wrigley's reviewed the death of 20-month-old Aromaia Duff in Napier in 2023, after being found face down in a backyard pool.

Wrigley says her death reaffirms concerns a pattern's emerging of drownings in such pools.

Acting Water Safety NZ CEO Gavin Walker told Heather du Plessis Allan that the issue isn't paddling pools - or much larger ones.

He says the problem is more with waist deep, medium-size pools about three metres across - which have proliferated.

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