It goes without saying – children’s lives are of paramount importance. It is for this reason that schools have a responsibility to protect the health, wellbeing, and safety of the children under their care.

To keep pupils safe, schools must ensure they adhere to government guidelines on what first aid training is required.  This article looks into these requirements, how schools can meet them, and discusses if more should be done to ensure school children – in addition to teachers and other members of staff – are first aid trained too.

The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases, and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) requires employers to report to the relevant enforcing authority and keep records of:

Following on from our previous posts on why teachers & students should be first aid trained, we wanted to share these two basic skills to prevent people from dying after being injured.

So you’ve probably seen us banging on about it already, but just in case you didn’t already know, the Blended Learning option of our Paediatric First Aid course is now live!