This story is about what's happening in the UK not the US.
Trial lawyers have taken a lot of the fun out of life for young people in this country as well.
At public parks and in school yards, jungle gyms, merry-go-rounds, teeter-totters and metal slides have largely disappeared. One can still find swings, but they don't seem to be as high as before.
Diving boards have also vanished from swimming pools. Even large institutions such as high schools, which can afford Olympic-size swimming pools do not install diving boards. And even private homes don't have them because the insurance is too expensive. The disappearance of diving boards may be a major reason why the US no longer dominates in diving at the Summer Olympics, a sport that it had dominated for decades.