The plans are in response to a campaign by Joanne and Dan Thompson, whose daughter Millie died after choking at a nursery in 2012.
More than 100,000 people signed the couple’s online petition calling for compulsory first aid training.
All Level 2 and Level 3 staff will be required to have an emergency paediatric first aid or a full paediatric first aid certificate if they are to count towards the staff-qualification ratios in the EYFS. Currently early years providers must have one first-aider on the premises at all times.
The emergency first aid training course would be equivalent to one day's training and will need to be refreshed by staff every three years to count towards the ratios.
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