§ Rear-Admiral Morgan-Gilesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will ask the schools working party on curricular matters to examine the provision of training in first aid in secondary schools.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThere is no single working party on school curriculum matters. The Schools Council, which keeps the school curriculum under review and makes available advice on curricular matters, has a number of committees concerned with various aspects of the curriculum. The council itself decides from time to time which aspects are to be studied.
Advice on the teaching of first aid in secondary schools is, however, given in the 178W Department's "Handbook of Health Education" The handbook stresses that there are limits beyond which elementary first aid cannot go.