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<p>The Department is committed to supporting schools to deliver high quality relationships
education, relationships and sex education and health education. This includes appropriate
support on the teaching of lifesaving and first aid skills.</p><p>The Department is
aware that many schools already teach these subjects well, often as part of personal,
social, health, and economic education and will be able to adapt to the new requirements
quickly and draw on existing high-quality resources. An early adopter school programme
has been established to support early teaching of the new requirements from September
2019. The lessons learned from these early adopter schools will be shared with schools
working to a slower timetable.</p><p>The Department’s consultation on the draft statutory
guidance identified training as a priority for many teachers. The Department will
be working with subject experts, teachers and schools to determine how this training
can be structured and what should be contained in it. The Department intends to develop
and test a training programme that is accessible to teachers by September 2020.</p><p>The
budget of £6 million in the 2019/20 financial year will support the development of
a package of support for all schools. Funding beyond 2019/20 will be a matter for
the forthcoming Spending Review.</p><p>There are already free resources available
for schools to teach first aid, including those provided by the Every Child a Lifesaver
Coalition, made up of the British Heart Foundation, St John Ambulance and the British
Red Cross.</p>
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