Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his Department’s policy for all nursery staff to undertake compulsory paediatric first aid training.

It is not the Department for Education’s policy for all staff working in a nursery to have paediatric first aid (PFA) training. The statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) says that there must be at least one person with a full PFA certificate available at all times. All newly qualified entrants to the early years workforce, who have completed a level 2 and/or level 3 early years qualification, must also have either a full or emergency PFA certificate within three months of starting work, to be included in the required staff to child ratios at level 2 or level 3 in an early years setting. The statutory framework for the EYFS can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2.