First Aid Teaching in Schools
Overview for your School’s Leadership Team
On January 3rd 2019, The Rt. Hon. Damian Hinds, Secretary of State for Education issued a statement (under plans for health education to be taught in every school), underlining the importance of every child having the chance to learn life-saving skills such as CPR and how to get help in a medical emergency. He went on to say:
“Learning the basic skills of first aid and techniques like CPR will give young people the confidence to know that they can step in to help someone else in need and in the most extreme cases – it could potentially save a life.
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That’s why we took the decision to include health education alongside relationship education for primary school children and relationship and sex education for secondary children. These subjects are a crucial part of our work to ensure children learn the wider skills they need to flourish in the modern world.

Schools will be encouraged and supported to teach high-quality relationships education, RSE and health education – tailored to meet their pupils’ needs – from September 2019, ahead of it becoming compulsory in September 2020.”
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With emergency services reporting a spike in cardiac arrests during the winter months, and survival rates lower than usual, according to NHS England figures, he also stressed the importance of the government’s plans for all children to be taught basic first aid in schools under proposals due to be rolled out from 2020. Schools will be supported if they want to introduce lessons earlier that 2020.
Simon Gillespie, Chief Executive of the British Heart Foundation said:
“There are 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year, each and every day people needlessly die because bystanders don’t have the confidence or knowledge to perform CPR and defibrillation. This is why schoolchildren should be given the opportunity to learn these skills.”
Professor Huon Gray, National Clinical Director for Heart Disease at NHS England said:
“We are delighted that school children will have the opportunity of learning life saving and first aid skills. Knowing how to react when someone suffers a cardiac arrest will truly save lives. Increasing the number of people trained in resuscitation complements the long term plan for the NHS.”
Under the proposed new guidance, by the end of Secondary School, pupils will be taught how to administer CPR, the purpose of defibrillators and basic treatment for common injuries.
Life Saving Solutions Limited can deliver!
We are already in a position to be able to deliver courses to your students at all levels, and have extensive experience of teaching Life Saving skills to students within all age groups.

We would attend your School (or college) and deliver the course in bite sized modules to fit in with year group timetables, delivering these backed up with demonstration equipment, manikins, and a range of course-note handouts for students to take away.

Basic First Aid will form an introduction to the course modules, which will include the recognition of, and recommended treatment for common injuries, CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) and the use of an AED (defibrillator). Also for the younger students, a knowledge of how to contact emergency services, how to give accurate information, and how to act and care for the patient before the arrival of professional help.
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The length of the programme will be arranged and agreed with the individual school together with regard to the needs of the pupils, and how to dovetail this into any previous First Aid knowledge.
Contact us (01246 417377 or 07736 257453) so we can help you to
​equip today's young people with the life saving skills they need.
Life Saving Solutions Limited  •  Company Number: 08951926  •  ​Managing Director: Mr A. Joynes
F.I.S.T. • A.I.S.T • A.I.S.T.(T.D.)  •  DBS (enhanced)  •  Level 3 Award in Education and Training (QCF)
Trainer Assessor, FAIB (The First Aid Industry Body)  •  EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage)
​AED (Automated External Defibrillator Trainer and Assessor)