Keep Children Safe. Our campaign to make sure all childcare and nursery learning providers have members of staff on duty with a Paediatric First Aid qualification, when children are present. This is linked to our ‘38 Degrees‘ petition.
Working with the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Government, the First Aid Training Co-operative has been trying to encourage providers to make sure they have appropriately trained staff on duty when children are at nursery.
Can We Change The Government’s Mind? Previous Cases Where Legislation Regarding Children And First Aid Has Been Changed Can We Change The Government’s Mind? People say to me, “you will never persuade the powers that be to change their minds”. Well there are some similar precedents to this situation regarding first aid training: In 2014…
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Comments from the Care Inspectorate about Paediatric First Aid Here are some comments from the Care Inspectorate about Paediatric First Aid training for staff in the Early Years workplace. Care Inspectorate Chief Inspector says “the Care Inspectorate requires (care) staff to have the skills and knowledge to undertake their role…. as discussed on occasions there
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What is the ‘Keep Children in Scotland Safe’ campaign? In late 2016 one of our Director, Cory Jones, asked the then Scottish Early Years and Childcare (ELC) Minister if Scotland was likely to introduce legislation to ensure that ELC Providers have trained Paediatric First Aid staff on duty when infants and children were at their
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Cory Jones meets Minister to discuss Paediatric First Aid Cory Jones Meets with MSP Maree Todd to discuss provision of Paediatric First Aid On April 6th Cory Jones, First Aid Training Co-operative Director met Minister for Childcare and Early Years to discuss the needs for first aid provision in the Childcare and Early Learning (ELC)
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