Compulsory Emergency First Aid Education (State-funded Secondary Schools) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:43 am on 20 November 2015.

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Photo of Robert Jenrick Robert Jenrick Conservative, Newark 10:43, 20 November 2015

All the schools I spoke to are trying in their own way to provide training, doing what they believe is appropriate and working with local groups. However, the point remains that none of them wants it to be a compulsory part of the national curriculum, believes that that is the appropriate and best way of furthering the cause, or, given their awareness of young people, believes that forcing them is the best way of inspiring and motivating them to do it, to take it seriously, and to really believe in it.

Other headteachers raised with me the point that many other important issues could persuasively be suggested for the national curriculum, such as PHSE, biology—