ITC First Aid for Forest Schools Practitioners
Developed and delivered by Andy Forsyth.
For more detailed information contact Andy :andy_forsyth@hotmail.co.uk or 07977 287006
First Aid courses for Forest School Practitioners
Over the last couple of years there has been some confusion with regard to the first aid course being offered to forest school practitioners. Some of this confusion comes about due to the EYFS statutory requirements and the need for some Forest School practitioners to have a Paediatric first aid in the work place. In order to make sure that there is some standardisation within the UK with what is being delivered ITC has introduced a Forest School first aid course. This has been developed to meet the demand of the forest school providers and is specific to the Forest School setting.
Therefore from Jan 2011, Archimedes will be offering the following course to forest school practitioners.
Forest School First Aid (16 hours)
- The course is 16 hours and is in keeping with the requirements of other outdoor national governing bodies.
- This course prepares candidates to deal with incidents in the outdoors and in remote settings. (By definition remote is more than 30 min from assistance)
- Emphasis will be made with dealing with both adults and children
(By definition children covers ages 1 – pre-puberty)
- Child related illnesses will be covered as will burns, poisons, foreign objects in the eye, hypothermia as well as other outdoor illnesses.
- As the course covers adult issues and will not cover infants (0 – 12 months) it will therefore not be a true Paediatric course and hence will not be transferable to early years statutory requirements for Paediatric first aid.
- For reasons of standardisation ITC trainers will be accredited to deliver this course, by undergoing additional training in order to appear on the ITC Forest school first aid provider register