Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 19 January 2015.
Nick Gibb
Minister of State (Education)
2:30,
19 January 2015
Three in a row. Schools are free to teach emergency life-saving skills and may choose to do so as part of personal, social, health and economic education. The Department, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said, is encouraging schools to purchase automated external defibrillators and has made arrangements to help them do so at a competitive price. We have also published a guide to defibrillators on school premises, in which we suggest that schools may wish to consider offering cardiopulmonary resuscitation training throughout the school.
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