Nursery World - Oliver Steeper inquest: Not all practitioners' paediatric first aid certificates were up to date

Some staff at Jelly Beans Nursery in Kent, where Oliver Steeper choked on food and later passed away in hospital, did not have up-to-date first aid training, the inquest has heard.

Oliver Steeper, PHOTO: Steeper Foundation

On the third day of the inquest, it has emerged that nursery practitioner, Nazia Begum, who gave evidence, and some other staff members' paediatric first aid training was out-of-date and was a ‘source of concern’ among colleagues at the setting.

Begum’s paediatric first aid certificate was a year out of date and she had not received any updated training in the two years she had worked there.

She said other staff were aware their training was due to be updated, but it had not been brought up by management.

Ms Begum, who had not had to carry out first aid or CPR on a child at the nursery before, said, ‘The staff were fully aware if it was running out or out of date, I hadn’t had any more additional first aid training while I was there.

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