First Aid for Education

First Aid Training for Schools, Nurseries, Colleges and Universities

CLX First Aid are specialists in providing high quality practical first aid training for clients in the education sector. Most of our clients are involved in education or working with young people. A good proportion of this is the specialist first aid training required for schools. As a former secondary school teacher and outdoor learning practitioner in a primary school, Chris Leleux has many years of working in the same environment as you, with young people of the same age as your students. This helps to make our training relevant and makes it easy to give examples and scenarios specific to your workplace, helping your staff to be able to manage first aid incidents that they might realistically have to deal with.

Nurseries/Pre-school/Children's Centres

To meet the statutory requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage, there must always be staff on the premises or on visits who hold an up-to-date Paediatric First Aid certificate. There must be sufficient staff with the Paediatric First Aid certificate to cover for staff absences such as holidays, training, sickness and working patterns. To see further details, including dates for Paediatric First Aid training, see the First Aid Training Dates page. Our Paediatric First Aid qualification meets the criteria required by Ofsted and for Mille's Mark.

In addition to the care for the children, staff need to have first aid cover as well. As low risk places of employment, most nurseries will be able to have Emergency First Aid at Work training, with enough staff to cover absences caused by holidays, training, sickness and working patterns. To see further details, including dates for Emergency First Aid at Work training, see the First Aid Training Dates page.

Primary Schools

To meet the statutory requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage, there must always be staff on the premises or on visits who hold an up-to-date Paediatric First Aid certificate. There must be sufficient staff with the Paediatric First Aid certificate to cover for staff absences such as holidays, training, sickness and working patterns. To see further details, including dates for Paediatric First Aid training, see the First Aid Training Dates page. Whilst the Early Years Foundation Stage only covers children up to the age of five, it would make sense for Paediatric First Aid training to be course for those adults who supervise children and need first aid training in primary schools. Our Paediatric First Aid qualification meets the criteria required by Ofsted.

In addition to the care for the children, staff need to have first aid cover as well. As low risk places of employment with less members of staff, most primary schools will be able to have Emergency First Aid for Schools and Colleges or Emergency First Aid at Work training, with enough staff to cover absences caused by holidays, training, sickness and working patterns. To see further details, including dates for Emergency First Aid at Work training, see the First Aid Training Dates page.

Whilst many schools choose to give their lunchtime supervisors full Paediatric First Aid training, CLX First Aid also runs shorter bespoke courses for lunchtime supervisors to give them the confidence and skills to deal with the numerous minor problems that can occur during the busiest time of the day for first aid incidents. Please contact us by phone or by filling in the Contact Us page for further details.

Sports Co-ordinators may wish to focus on the particular first aid training needs that PE and Sport brings. For further details, including dates for First Aid for Sport, Exercise and Fitness training, see the First Aid Training Dates page.

If your school has a Forest School, your Forest School Practitioners should hold a suitable outdoor based first aid qualification including children, such as Forest School First Aid or Outdoor First Aid to comply with the Forest School Association's advice on best pratice. For further details, including dates for Outdoor First Aid and Forest School First Aid training, see the First Aid Training Dates section.

Secondary Schools

For secondary schools, the obvious choice is the First Aid for Schools and Colleges qualification, which covers both students and staff - NB First Aid at Work does not include children. Additional first aiders will be able to receive Emergency First Aid for Schools and Colleges training, with enough staff to cover absences caused by holidays, training, sickness and working patterns. To see further details, including dates for First Aid for Schools and Colleges and Emergency First Aid Schools and Colleges training, see the First Aid Training page.

PE staff will want to focus on the particular first aid training needs that their specialism brings. The ideal course here is First Aid for Sport, Exercise and Fitness. For further details, including dates for First Aid for Sport, Exercise and Fitness training, see the First Aid Training Dates section.

If your school runs adventurous activities programmes, such as school camp, or runs fieldtrips in remote locations, the teachers will benefit from Outdoor First Aid training to keep leadership qualifications valid and to give peace of mind when operating away from the main school site. For further details, including dates for Outdoor First Aid training, see the First Aid Training Dates section.

At CLX First Aid, we train students as well as staff. For a number of years we have run courses for sixth formers in particular, but also other age groups, to give them additional qualifications, useful life skills and extra to sell themselves with on their UCAS applications. It also ties in with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme and can be used towards the CAS requirement for the International Baccalaureate. Qualifications we have run for students include Outdoor First Aid, Paediatric First Aid and Emergency First Aid at Work. These are all regulated by Ofqual. The First Aid for Sport, Exercise and Fitness qualification will meet some of the requirements of the BTEC Sports course in the Sports Injury Management unit.