Velda Bartholomew, quality improvement officer, Pre-school Learning Alliance
All early years practitioners do their utmost to ensure the children they care for are kept safe and well at all times.
However, there will inevitably be occasions where children become injured or unwell, and staff find themselves required to act quickly to an emergency situation.
Earlier this month, the Department for Education announced that, under government proposals, new nursery and pre-school staff will be required to undertake paediatric first aid training - a change that the DfE says will bring around 15,000 additional trained first aid staff into the sector.
The changes are expected to come into effect by September 2016.
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