WAID Enhancement Project

The WAID enhancement project was undertaken by RoSPA, on behalf of the NWSF, to improve the WAID dataset. This was done for two primary reasons:

• The need to overturn the high number of ‘not recorded’ outcomes, giving a more robust data set (which could more accurately measure against the UK Drowning Prevention Strategy baseline)
• To match recent updates to the WAID taxonomy.

Key objectives were to:

• Provide the UK Drowning Prevention Strategy review with an up to date and robust data set
• To match the previous four-year data to the new 2023 WAID taxonomy and reconfigure ONS regional data.