Safer Nurseries Thanks To Millie
A Manchester couple calling for nursery staff to get compulsory training in first aid, have won their first fight.
Children's nurseries will be safer in future thanks to new training and campaigning by a Stockport couple. Joanne and Dan Thompson’s fight for tougher requirements for nursery workers follows the death of their nine-month-old daughter Millie. Millie died from choking on food at a nursery in 2012 where the supervisor looking after her did not have a current first aid certificate. Ministers have proposed a change in the law for new nursery and pre-school staff to be legally required to undertake a paediatric first aid qualification. The Thompson's set up Millie’s Trust to raise awareness of paediatric first aid training and received more than 102,000 signatures on an e-petition, calling on the government to take action, They hope the new proposals will pave the way to all nursery staff being trained, including those already in post. http://www.milliestrust.com/