SWIMMING sessions at a Bournemouth play scheme have been cancelled after a young girl allegedly slipped into a swimming pool.

Emergency services were called to the incident during the Boredom Busters sessions at Stourfield Infants School in Cranleigh Road, following reports that a six-year-old girl had been injured.

Paramedics treated the girl at the scene before taking her to Poole Hospital for treatment. She was later discharged.

A spokesperson for Dorset Police said that they were notified of the incident, which happened just after midday on July 22, by ambulance control but did not attend the scene.

Bournemouth Borough Council has now launched an investigation and said staff were helping them. The play scheme remains open.

Service director for children’s learning and engagement, Di Mitchell, said: “The safety and wellbeing of children is our number one concern and the team on site worked swiftly to respond to this incident and immediately called in the ambulance and police services.

“Following the incident we took the decision to cease the swimming sessions that were scheduled at the school this week and we are now undertaking a thorough investigation to determine how this incident occurred.”

Boredom Busters is a council-run play scheme catering for children aged between four and 12 across several sites in Bournemouth.

This is the second incident to have happened during the scheme in two months.

In June Bournemouth council had to investigate claims that two students were able to work with children at one site without being properly vetted by the Criminal Record Bureau.