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First Aid: Parents

Volume 492: debated on Tuesday 5 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make an estimate of the proportion of new parents who undertook training in first aid prior to the birth of their children in the last 12 months. (272494)

Information on the number of parents who have undertaken first aid training is not available.

Our publication “Birth to Five” gives advice to new mothers on a full range of child health, development and parenting issues, including how to cope with illness, injuries and step-by-step emergency first aid. “Birth to Five” encourages parents to take a first aid course and gives information on courses run by the St. John’s Ambulance and local NHS ambulance services. A copy of the publication has already been placed in the Library.