First aid for families

These fun and friendly first aid classes are ideal for parents to learn together with friends and family. This course is interactive, and confidence-building, and will provide plenty of opportunity to practice techniques and ask questions.

Babies under 12 months are welcome.

Learning baby and child first aid is a must for all new parents, and anyone looking after children so that you can reduce the anxiety that comes with having a new little person to look after.

Duration: 2 hours

Certification: Upon completion of this course, participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Who should attend this course:

This course is perfect for babysitters, family members, grandparents, expectant parents or parents of children of all ages.

If you care for a child professionally our paediatric first aid course meets workplace and Ofsted.

What does the course cover?

The course covers first aid techniques for babies (0-1 years) and children (1-12 years). Babies in arms are welcome to attend with adults – up to the age of 12 months.
This 2 hour course includes the following:

Unconscious baby and child (breathing or not breathing)
Use of AED
Choking baby and child
Bleeding
Burns
Raised temperatures
Meningitis

“I did the 2 hour first aid training with Emily on Saturday afternoon. It was really enjoyable and also brilliantly informative. We had a lot of ‘hands-on’ practice, to really help us feel confident to practise first aid in an emergency situation with adults, children and babies. The group was small enough so that Emily could really cater to our individual needs I attended a similar course when my baby was first born, but the scenarios we learnt about then seemed somehow ‘unreal’. Now I have a four and a six year old boy that get into plenty of scrapes, I listened with a completely fresh set of ears! As we worked through the session, I felt really panicked at some stages, that I would one day find myself faced with one of the situations we were dealing with, but at the end of the session, I walked out feeling confident that I would know what to do if the worst happened! “