Scouting First Response
Classroom Training Course
The aim of 1st Response is to ensure that Girlguiding / Scouting members are kept as safe as possible while they are in our care. The course is mapped to and based on the Scouting 1st Response full course and is taught over six contact hours, not including breaks. Participants will have the skills and knowledge to enable them to keep Girl Guiding and Scouting members as safe as possible while they are in their care.
This Course Includes:
- Follows UK & ERC guidelines
- Evidence Based Training Certificate
- Instant printable wall certificate
- Expiration reminder
- Student manual - English, Spanish, Polish and Arabic
This Course is Perfect For...
- Scout leaders
- Guide leaders
- Parents
Course Curriculum
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the training, participants will have had the opportunity to be
- Provided with simple first aid information which is relevant to their role
- Helped to build confidence and skills in coping with emergency and first aid situations
- Equipped with the knowledge needed to manage these emergencies.
The course contents are as follows:
1. Principles of first aid related to Girlguiding / Scouting
- Key policies and guidelines relating to 1st Response
- Emergency file for Girlguiding members and purple card for Scouting members
- Duty of care for other people’s children including giving medication
- Managing and reporting an incident
- First aid equipment
- Role of a first aider arrival at an incident
2. Emergency life support
- Primary survey using DR ABC
- Choking
- Recovery position
- Basic life support (for both children and adults)
- External bleeding
3. Life-threatening situations - identifying injuries and monitoring the condition
- Identify injury
- Levels of consciousness
- Signs, symptoms and initial treatment for all causes of unresponsiveness including:
- Fainting
- Imbalance of heat include heat exhaustion, heat stroke and hypothermia
- Shock
- Heart attack/angina pectoris
- Stroke – include how to use FAST
- Head Injury
- Asphyxia/hypoxia/drowning
- Asthma
- Anaphylaxis
- Poisoning
- Seizures including epilepsy
- Diabetic emergencies
4. Signs, symptoms and initial treatment for each of the following BONE AND MUSCLE injuries:
- Broken bones i.e. fractures
- Strains and sprains
5. Signs, symptoms and initial treatment for each of the following SKIN injuries:
- Burns – dry heat, radiation including sunburn, hot liquids, steam (scalds) and chemicals
- Minor cuts and grazes, bumps and bruises
- Splinters• Stings /Ticks / Animal and snake bites• Blisters
6. Signs, symptoms and initial treatment for each of the following injuries to the HEAD
- Foreign bodies in the ears and nose
- Nosebleeds
- Eye injuries
7. Signs, symptoms and initial treatment for each of the following ailments :
- Headache
- Earache
- Stomach ache
- Dehydration
- Tooth loss
- Meningitis
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More about this course
The aim of 1st Response is to ensure that Girlguiding / Scouting members are kept as safe as possible while they are in our care. The course is mapped to and based on the Scouting 1st Response full course and is taught over six contact hours, not including breaks. Participants will have the skills and knowledge to enable them to keep Girl Guiding and Scouting members as safe as possible while they are in their care.
- Student Manual (V9.0) - First Aid Plus
- 5 Step Process of Using WoundClot Hemostatic Gauze
- Adolescent CPR Flowchart handout/poster
- Adult CPR Flowchart
- Adult CPR Flowchart handout/poster
- Be Allergy Aware Save-a-Life leaflet
- Catastrophic bleeding and trauma First Aid Guidance From ProTrainings.
- Child CPR Flowchart
- Child CPR Flowchart handout/poster
- Child and Infant CPR Flowchart Handout
- Childcare Accident Book
- Clean hand techniques leaflet
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) - link to the NHS website
- EURneffy® nasal spray for anaphylaxis leaflet
- EURneffy® nasal spray instruction leaflet
- EpiPen Guide
- EpiPen patient information sheet
- Find out what other courses are available as video online, blended and classroom courses nationally - our course finder
- Free student first aid program leaflet
- HSE First Aid at Work Regulations
- HeartSine 350 Information Leaflet
- Home Emergency Contact Sheet
- How to register to call EMS by text
- Infant CPR Flowchart
- Infant CPR Flowchart handout/poster
- Jext Product Data Sheets
- Jext patient Information Sheet
- Oxygen User Instructions - Gas rentals are available from ProTrainings, contact us for more information
- Oxygen and Analgesic gases from ProTrainings
- ProTrainings - Using an AED Leaflet
- ProTrainings Defibrillator eGuide
- Sign up for free Student First Aid - use code SCH-376-61-571
- Student Manual (V8.6) - Anatomy and Physiology Human Body
- Student Manual (V9.0) - Pierwsza Pomoc w Pracy Ksiazka studenta - Polish
- Visit the First Aid Show free for first aid and medical videos
- Workplace Accident Book
- Woundclot - haemostatic gauze for all types of bleeding
- Woundclot leaflet with price list - 2025
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