No early years manager wants to discover in an emergency that the first aid training given to the staff has not equipped them to cope effectively with a sick or injured child.
But how does a manager assess which of the many paediatric first aid training courses on offer will provide practitioners with the appropriate knowledge and skills?
'This is the crux of the matter,' says Chris Pritchard, proprietor of Jace Training. 'I don't think people do always know which first aid courses to access.
'A lot of people go to organisations like St John Ambulance or the British Red Cross because they have been established for so long. It is important to find a specialist course because you have to be so very careful when applying first aid to small children.'
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