Nursery World - New early years first aid award launches

From today (1 September) nurseries can apply for a new first aid award, Millie’s Mark.

The new quality mark was created by the charity Millie’s Trust in partnership with the Department for Education.

The trust was set up by Joanne and Dan Thompson in memory of their daughter who died after choking on food at her nursery in Stockport.

The charity provides first aid education and training and launched a petition calling for all nursery practitioners to be trained in paediatric first aid. The petition was signed by more than 100,000 people.

As a result, from this month all newly qualified staff with a childcare Level 2 and 3 qualification will have an emergency paediatric first aid or full paediatric first aid certificate.

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