Nursery World - Call for tougher regulations on first aid

A stringent regulating body is needed to police paediatric first aid in the childcare sector, the National Childminding Association and the Pre-School Learning Alliance said last week. The call came after a joint statement that they would be withdrawing their First Aid Approval scheme in July 2006.

The call came after a joint statement that they would be withdrawing their First Aid Approval scheme in July 2006.

It said that the scheme, which was set up in 1989 to give members the opportunity to access sector-specific first aid training, had grown 'beyond its resources'.

Michael Freeston, the Alliance's director of training and quality assurance, said that it was originally developed as a service to members, but it is now being 'used and relied on' by the whole children's sector, 'without any contribution to the costs'.

He said that the 'light touch' nature of the scheme had led to 'widespread misinterpretation'.

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