Question follow-through · 86867
Schools: CPR and Defibrillators
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure schools provide mandatory (a) CPR training and (b) defibrillator use; and what systems are in place to monitor implementation across schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure schools provide mandatory (a) CPR training and (b) defibrillator use; and what systems are in place to monitor implementation across schools.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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17 Nov 2025
Answer published
All state funded schools are required to teach first aid as part of the statutory health education set out in the relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance. Independent schools are required to cover health education as part of thei...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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