Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 17 October 2018.
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. Yesterday was Restart a Heart Day. I'm sure you've been anticipating this question. The health Secretary's out-of-hospital cardiac arrest plan can only go so far, and as far as I can tell from speaking to the relevant charities across Wales, there is still resistance among your officials to include emergency life-saving skills, not just cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as a mandatory part of the new Donaldson curriculum. Now, I appreciate that the Donaldson approach is about not being over-prescriptive, but there are exceptions to this already. What evidence do I need to give you to make the teaching of mandatory life-saving skills one of those exceptions?