Some of you who have seen previous post of mine about one of my ex's and some of the odd court orders I have had to obtain over the years in order to allow our child to be able to have a safe relationship with him.
He was prohibited from having child overnight allowing child to go swimming and from bathing child until child was 6yo.
The thing that started pretty much most of the back and forth to court stuff was him disclosing to a a social worker that he was allowing our 3y4 month old child to bath with periods of no supervision,this is the first thing I knew about his parenting abilities and priorities changing, she reported it to the child protection team and the next thing you know all hell broke lose. He had court ordered contact prior to that and contrary to most people's beliefs SS without a court order cannot override another court order,he professed to all who were prepared to listen that leaving an under 5yo in a body of water for short periods of time was perfectly acceptable it was his refusal to acknowledge that it was an issue despite a cafcas officer and judge telling him he would lose unsupervised contact if he wouldn't.
Our child is older now so these were the days of mothers being accused of "failing to protect" their children and it was made quite clear to me at the time that if I did not take the matter to court I would be considered to have failed to protect our child from neglect.
I can remember a few expert reports from the time talking about drowning incidents and it was horrifying just how quickly it can happen and what can happen medically if you don't die. One of the things to remember is one of the reasons for the drop in amount of children under 5 drowning in bath tubs is because it's become far less likely that a child that age would be left unsupervised.
My understanding is it can be even more dangerous with a young one if they are in the bath with another child close in age