For legal purposes you need to be able to prove that you have made appropriate first aid provision for your organisation. From the HSE perspective, there should be at least one person available at all times (per 50 employees) who is trained with an HSE qualification. For up to 50 employees this can be a one day EFAW qualification (ideally tailored to schools including child first aid, heart attack, head injuries and anaphylaxis in addition to the EFAW HSE syllabus). For more than 50 employees you should have 3 day FAW qualifications with EFAW staff supporting them.

For the EYFS and Ofsted requirements you should have at least one 12 hour full paediatric first aid qualified member of staff available at all times including cover for sickness, holidays and trips. The 12 hour paediatric first aid trained staff can be supported by one day Emergency Paediatric First Aid trained staff.

This is also the criteria for Nurseries looking to qualify for Millie’s Mark.

The 12 hour full paediatric qualification can be a full 2 days in the classroom or a blended option – with 6 hours pre-learning online and 6 hours as a practical course.

It is a good idea to upskill as many additional staff as possible with a 3 hour First Aid for Schools course.

For our next full day scheduled EFAW, Emergency Paediatric or 12 hour blended Paediatric first aid qualifications, please check out our scheduled courses page.

For the HSE qualifications we run a fully regulated and approved 3 day blended First Aid at Work course. This will be suitable as a 3 day blended with the pre-learning online, or as the 2 day FAW re-qualification, with just the practical days alone. The course will be tailored to schools and nurseries and will include adult and child first aid. These courses book up extremely fast, but we can add additional dates or organise bespoke courses if need be.

Any of our courses can be bespoke group courses for your organisations.

For more information and supporting documents please click here.

We also offer first aid for children and teenagers. Our trainers are all highly experienced medical and emergency services professionals and engaging knowledgeable teachers to adults and children.

What Schools say about our training:

I came across First Aid for Life when searching for a course provider who could deliver on-site Emergency First Aid at Work training. From A to B the process was as straightforward and manageable as I’d hoped. The training was first rate – the feedback from the course delegates was all good – content delivered was easy to digest and all that attended now had the confidence to act in an emergency if necessary.