Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support first aid training being undertaken by (a) early years settings and (b) childminders.
In 2016, following consultation, the department introduced a requirement in the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework (EYFS) for newly qualified level 2 and level 3 early years staff to also hold a current Paediatric First Aid (PFA) or emergency PFA certificate.
Childminders, and any assistant who might be in sole charge of the children for any period of time, must also hold a full current PFA certificate:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2.
In the same year we launched the voluntary Millie’s Mark quality scheme with the National Day Nurseries Association to recognise those settings that go over and above the statutory requirement of the EYFS by ensuring that all staff on site have PFA training:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-gold-standard-in-paediatric-first-aid-launched.