A heart charity is calling on the government to include the teaching of life-saving skills in the national curriculum.<\/p>\n
In a survey carried out by the British Heart Foundation, 73% of schoolchildren wanted to learn how to resuscitate someone and give first aid.<\/p>\n
More than 75% of teachers and parents also agreed it should be taught in schools.<\/p>\n
The survey questioned 2,000 parents, 1,000 children and 500 teachers.<\/p>\n
The BHF wants emergency life support skills (ELS) to be taught as part of personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) lessons and alongside physical education, citizenship and science.<\/p>\n
Life-saving skills include cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which can help someone who’s had a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n
It also covers how to deal with an unconscious person, serious bleeding, choking and heart attacks.<\/p>\n
Latest figures show that in 2007 around 100,000 people had a heart attack in England.<\/p>\n
Up to heads<\/strong><\/p>\nA spokesman from the Department of Education said there was nothing stopping schools teaching these life-saving skills already.<\/p>\n
“It’s down to heads to set a curriculum which best meets the needs of their pupils.<\/p>\n
“We are carrying out a root and branch reform of the national curriculum to set out the essential academic knowledge that children need, while leaving schools free to decide how to teach it.<\/p>\n
“We know that high-quality PSHE is important – that’s why it will remain a compulsory part of the curriculum, but we trust teachers to design lessons to suit their pupils.”<\/p>\n
Maura Gillespie, head of policy and public affairs at the BHF, said teaching these skills was crucial.<\/p>\n
“Teaching young people how to save a life is as important as learning to read and write. They are skills which equip them for real situations they might face in their lives.”<\/p>\n
Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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