Emergency First Aid course details
This 2-day Emergency First Aid course equips foster carers with the essential knowledge, skills and confidence to respond effectively to medical emergencies involving children and young people. The training focuses on recognising life-threatening conditions, providing immediate first aid intervention, and maintaining children’s safety and wellbeing until professional medical help is available.
The course supports foster carers to meet their responsibilities for safeguarding, promoting health, and maintaining safe caring environments, and contributes evidence towards both the Training, Support and Development Standards (TSDS) and the National Minimum Standards (NMS) for fostering services.
Learning outcomes
- An understanding of their role and responsibilities when responding to medical emergencies involving children and young people
- The ability to assess emergency situations and take appropriate, proportionate action
- Practical skills to deliver emergency first aid safely and confidently
- Increased awareness of health, safety and safeguarding responsibilities within a fostering household
- Confidence to promote children’s health and wellbeing in line with fostering standards and expectations
By the end of the course, you will have:
- demonstrated knowledge of emergency first aid procedures, including managing unconsciousness, breathing difficulties, bleeding, shock and seizures
- developed practical competence in delivering emergency first aid appropriate to children and young people
- improved understanding of how emergency first aid supports safeguarding and risk management
- evidence to contribute towards completion of relevant TSDS outcomes and National Minimum Standards requirements
Standards
Training, Support and Development Standards (TSDS)
- Standard 3 – Understand health and safety, and healthy care
- Standard 6 – Keep children and young people safe from harm
National Minimum Standards (NMS)
- Standard 6 – Promoting good health and wellbeing