Make the teaching of first aid compulsory in secondary schools in Wales

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

It is crucial that children are regularly taught basic first aid in schools. It’s impossible to predict when these skills will be needed to save the lives of thousands of people. Would you feel safer knowing that everyone around you knew how to perform first aid?

Approximately 140,000 people die each year in the UK due to the lack of first aid knowledge. That’s the same number of people who die from cancer. Research shows that only 5% of adults are confident in applying first aid in emergency situations. These statistics need to change: not in 5 years, not in 10 years, but now. 140,000 lives taken each year are ones which could have been prevented if we just supplied the knowledge of first aid into school students across the country.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Your petition is about something that the Welsh Government is responsible for. That means that the UK Government and Parliament can't look into it.

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Timeline

14 Oct 2019	Petition opened for signatures
15 Oct 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 15 Oct 2019

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