So you’ve read all about why we think school teachers should be First Aid trained, but what about school children themselves? Should First Aid be on the school curriculum? 

As we all know, children can be clumsy and get into all sorts of scrapes on a daily basis. With this in mind, children spend up to 6 hours of their time in the care of teachers at school, and as we’ve covered previously; the law is changing this month with regards to how nurseries can operate.

Each year, 2,700,000 people are injured as a result of an accident at home, with 4,000 of those injuries ending in fatalities. With this in mind, 82% of parents with young children questioned say that they would not know what to do if their child suffered an accident.

From September 2016 new nursery and pre-school staff will be required to undertake paediatric first aid for the first time, thanks to the new government proposal – ‘Millie’s Mark’.