Course Description

Our blended e-learning option offers 6 hours online e-learning followed by a 6 hour face to face session.  The training meets the recommendations of the Health and Safety (First Aid) regulations 1981

We can deliver this course at your home or premises.

Re training is required within 3 years of the certification date.

The Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework (EYFS) states that at least one person who has a current Paediatric First Aid (PFA) certificate must be on the premises and available at all times within a professional child care establishment when children are present. This includes cover for sickness and annual leave and to accompany children on trips and excursions. 

Course Content

• Scene Assessment
• The role of the First Aider
• Primary Survey 
• The unconscious breathing casualty
• The non- breathing unconscious casualty
• CPR (Including Infant and child)
• Use of AED
• Secondary Survey
• Choking (including infant and child)
• Seizures and Febrile convulsions
• Asthma and Croup
• Anaphylaxis 
• Shock
• Wounds and bleeding 
• Poisoning
• Burns
• Serious injuries
• Sprains and strains
• Head injury
• Sickle cell and meningitis 
• Diabetes 
• Heat and cold related injury 
• Illness in the childcare setting
• First Aid Kits

Who Should Attend?

The course is intended for those who work or intend to work in a childcare setting.