Cait Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 I've just received this https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-aid-training-to-be-made-compulsory-for-new-nursery-recruits 1 Quote
Mouseketeer Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Thanks Cait, I wonder how long someone will be classed as newly qualified after gaining their qualification, it would have made more sense that they had to complete it as part of the qualification. Quote
eyfs1966 Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Still am a little unclear about the specific rules here. Is it that all l2 and l3 who qualify post sept 2016 must have first aid to count in ratio? Quote
BroadOaks Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Well the apprenticeship schemes i am familiar with they do their pediatric first aid as part of their level 2 (or higher) qualification. At the moment the framework states 1 member of staff must have a qualification. i think it is safer and best practice to have all members qualified where possible or at least most. 1 Quote
mundia Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 There was a thread about this was this was first announced. As no more has been said recently, I do wonder if this one has slipped away for the time being? Quote
Cait Posted July 22, 2015 Author Posted July 22, 2015 I had an email from a company that stated "all early years workers must have first aid training" so I challenged and asked where the EYFS compulsory standards said that. She replied with that link. I've emailed her back and said that it doesn't say "all workers" on there either! It's a company selling training trying to put one over on me! I just thought the link would be helpful to someone out there. I too think that paediatric first aid should be a compulsory part of the training and didn't realise it wasn't nowadays. Certainly when my old staff did theirs, they didn't completely qualify until they had done their first aid. 1 Quote
mundia Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Good point, Cait about using it to advertise training. I think a few folk might accidentally fall into believing this is already signed and sealed, and go off and pay a small fortune to get everyone trained. Quote
catma Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 The info at the top clearly says it was announced under the old Govt - until this is new govt policy it isn't policy I'd say! 1 Quote
Cait Posted July 22, 2015 Author Posted July 22, 2015 Ooh good point. If I'd spotted that I could have used it in my email to her! Quote
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