First Aid

The Air Training Corps is committed to providing skills for life, these include offering every cadet with the opportunity to learn essential life saving skills. The first aid programme offered by the ATC is not only useful on cadet activities but also in day-to-day life and cadets can go on from basic life saving skills to full first aid certificates.

Many Squadrons not only offer formalised training in the form of the Essential First Aid or Youth First Aid programmes but also use first aid scenarios as part of other activities such as Duke of Edinburgh expedition training or leadership exercises. Providing these opportunities helps cadets to understand a first aid scenario and the pressures involved in the hope that if they need to provide assistance to someone they are comfortable in what is required.