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Compulsory Emergency First Aid Education
Topic Started: Nov 20 2015, 11:37 AM (93 Views)
papasmurf
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Whilst I personally would like to see Compulsory Emergency First Aid Education in schools, it appears it could be objected to by some people with an agenda:-

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/compulsoryemergencyfirstaideducationstatefundedsecondaryschools.html

Compulsory Emergency First Aid Education (State-funded Secondary Schools) Bill 2015-16


1st reading: House of Commons 1st reading: House of Commons 24 June, 2015 | 24.06.2015


Next event
2nd reading: House of Commons 2nd reading: House of Commons | 20.11.2015



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mps-could-talk-out-proposal-to-make-first-aid-training-compulsory-in-schools-a6737111.html

Tory MPs could 'talk out' proposal to make first aid training compulsory in schools

12,000 people have sent letters and emails urging MPs to support Compulsory Emergency First Aid Education Bill
Tom McTague, Susie Mesure |
Monday 16 November 2015|

Proposals to make emergency first aid training compulsory for all children risk being blocked by hardline Tory MPs supported by the Government, it has emerged.
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Opinionater
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Why would they want to block it, not clear from the link what the grounds of the objection are.

Can't see the cost being significant so what other reason would the have?
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Tytoalba
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Nov 20 2015, 07:12 PM
Why would they want to block it, not clear from the link what the grounds of the objection are.

Can't see the cost being significant so what other reason would the have?
Learning the basics of first aid can save a relatives life or that of a neighbour. It can save ones own.. How can anyone object to the teaching of what is really an essential life skill?

It may have helped in the Paris tragedy.

Media vita in morte sumus
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Rich
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Tytoalba
Nov 20 2015, 11:10 PM
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Nov 20 2015, 07:12 PM
Why would they want to block it, not clear from the link what the grounds of the objection are.

Can't see the cost being significant so what other reason would the have?
Learning the basics of first aid can save a relatives life or that of a neighbour. It can save ones own.. How can anyone object to the teaching of what is really an essential life skill?

It may have helped in the Paris tragedy.

Media vita in morte sumus
We do not have a choice at work, everybody has to attend a basic 1st aid course and refreshers thereafter every 2 years, one can even ask for advanced training which the company will pay for.

I look upon it as another string to my bow but hope that I do not have cause to use it.
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johnofgwent
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Well not enough people do have it ...

My eldest just applied for a call handler's job at the centre where the emergency calls get routed to, they asked her all sorts of wierd shite in the initial interview, but then suddenly remembered WHY her name sounded familiar ... every pension day when the old dears went to the post office across from the school where she worked, if any keeled over the school would send HER out as their most trained first aider .. so when the ambulance crew turned up to haul off the ones that needed professionals it was always HER name on the handover forms (they wondered about those too, then they realised she used the ones PADI handed me for handing over injured divers to the paramedics if shit happens)
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papasmurf
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Tytoalba
Nov 20 2015, 11:10 PM


It may have helped in the Paris tragedy.

In France it is the law you MUST render assistance to anyone in danger.
That may account for this:-

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/9/e005848.full

In France, all trainee schoolteachers must learn basic first aid to be applied in the classroom and to be taught to their pupils. More than 9 875 000 school children ranging from 4-year-old nursery schoolchildren to end of secondary school teenagers, about 14–15 years of age, should receive this first aid training. This programme is called “apprendre à porter secours” (learn how to help) and pupils can obtain a ‘basic-lifesaving diploma’ at the end of secondary school. In a medical emergency, it is essential for the first witness to raise the alert and provide emergency first aid as soon as possible. First aid has been defined as help given to any ‘sick or injured person until professional help arrives’.1 The challenge of enabling everyone to provide life-saving first aid when faced with a medical emergency implies that everyone should be trained at some point in their life. The construction of knowledge and skills can be easily mobilised in a medical emergency situation. Many experts and emergency medicine societies recommend teaching first aid at school so that every citizen knows how to perform first aid appropriately and raise emergency alerts at the earliest possible time.2–6 Children can provide first aid measures and save lives by recognising life-threatening emergency situations and by making an emergency call.7
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Steve K
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papasmurf
Nov 21 2015, 10:48 AM
In France it is the law you MUST render assistance to anyone in danger.
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Should be so here
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skwirked
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Agreed with the gist here, make it compulsory to learn first aid and to render assistance to others.

Fucking bastard biscuit Tories...
Edited by skwirked, Nov 21 2015, 12:23 PM.
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