Teaching Basic First Aid in Schools

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 14 January 2020.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 1:39, 14 January 2020

Can I thank the First Minister for that response? There are certain life skills that all children should have when they leave school—skills that will be more useful than a lot that is in the formal curriculum. Basic first aid, including things such as stopping heavy bleeding, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the Heimlich manoeuvre, are basic life skills and they help someone save a life. Does the First Minister agree that these need to be taught either within school or outside of school? But  they need to be taught so young children can actually save lives.