About Child Matters
Hi. I’m Claire Street, founder of Child Matters, who provide paediatric first aid training, family first aid training and junior first aid training to childcare professionals, parents, carers and kids. I’m a specialist paediatric nurse, who qualified as a Registered Children’s Nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital London in 1998. I’ve worked continuously within roles in major London hospitals and community settings, which included working as a Senior Sister in A&E departments. acquiring the skills to care for injured, sick and vulnerable children.
My love for assessing and educating people have been consolidated through working in community based positions, most recently with Looked After Children in London’s third largest borough. This role involved training foster careers and social workers about basic life support, first aid, child development and childhood injury and illnesses. My expertise has been strengthened by the undertaking of her Master’s Degree in Child Protection and Complex Child Care at the Tavistock and Portman Centre in London in 2008.
I continue to keep my skills updated with various training courses PILS (Paediatric Intermediate Life Support, AIM (Acute Illness Management Course) and first aid related conferences, courses and study days. This growing body of experience has given me and my team the motivation and expertise unique to Child Matters.
