My mission is to make basic infant first aid training universally accessible for expecting parents.

Let's make life-saving skills a right for parents, not just a professional requirement!!

I have worked in childcare settings for almost 10 years, where paediatric first aid training is a mandatory requirement for staff.

In these settings, it is rightly considered unacceptable for anyone responsible for a child’s care to be untrained in how to respond to emergencies such as choking, unresponsiveness, or serious injury.

It is from this perspective that I question why the same standard is not applied to parents.

Most parents would not feel comfortable leaving their child with a nursery, childminder, or babysitter who did not hold relevant first aid qualifications - yet parents, as a child's primary caregivers, are not required to receive even basic infant first aid training,

I believe this represents a significant and preventable gap in our current approach to early childhood safety.

Every year in England, about 55 children die due to unintentional injury in/around the home.

370,000 children under 5 attend A&E departments because of home accidents.

40.000 of those are admitted to hospital as emergencies

*these figures indicate that accidental injuries are common, serious and largely preventable - especially in home environments where infants and children spend most of their time.

Surveys found that only 19% of parents had been on a first aid course in the past 5 years 

55% of parents said that they lacked the skills to save their child in a life-threatening accident.

57% of parents said that they would wait for an ambulance instead of taking action, even in emergencies where immediate help is critical.

20% of parents have never learned first aid through any means.

1 in 3 parents babies under 2 had never been on any first aid course.

Department of Health figures estimate that A&E attendances for under 5's is about £140 million per year.

An ambulance call out that ends in a trip to A&E = roughly £417.

An ambulance call out = roughly £287.

NICE modelling on broader child injury prevention (under 15's) suggests that an 11% reduction in unintentional injuries could save around £26 million annually.