Parent First Aid

29/01/2026

What Total Safety Services can offer your business...
👉 Workplace Emergency First Aid
👉 First Aid Responder (FAR)
👉 CPR / AED Heartsaver
👉 Paediatric First Aid
👉 Fire Safety Training
👉 Manual Handling
👉 Wellbeing & Mental Health First Aid
👉 Medical Supplies (AED's, First Aid Kits, Industrial First Aid supplies etc)

Our training is facilitated by highly qualified and experienced first aid instructors within the health & safety industry. All our instructors are selected based on their relevant qualifications and their ability to deliver the latest first aid techniques to small and large training groups. They offer real-life experiences to the training sessions and provide an open and comfortable learning environment. Our instructors are all Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) qualified.

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28/01/2026

Who should young people trust for mental health advice online? 🤔

From TikTok to Instagram, children and young people are turning to social media for support, but not all content is accurate or helpful. This week’s guide explores how mental health misinformation can mislead young people and shares practical ways adults can help them spot unreliable advice and build healthy, informed understanding.

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28/01/2026

27/01/2026

Well done to all the staff & pupils learning life saving first aid skills today.
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A very busy day visiting Donaskeigh NS, Tipperary to deliver our Little Heroes First Aid workshops to 85 pupils and then refresh the staff on their first aid skills with a 2 hour first aid course including CPR.

Another school in the community is trained in basic first aid skills.

26/01/2026

If a button battery is swallowed and gets stuck in the food pipe, energy from the battery reacts with saliva to create caustic soda. That’s the same chemical used to unblock drains!

This can burn through the food pipe, to the main artery and lead to life-changing internal injuries and death.

Even if a child survives these injuries, there is a risk that the food pipe is too badly damaged to eat normally again or the vocal cords are too badly damaged to speak normally again.

Please look around your home for button batteries. Think toys, lights, remote controls and more. And keep them out of reach of children.

Learn more: https://capt.org.uk/button-battery-safety/

25/01/2026

Next week’s Parent First Aid classes are in Blanchardstown, Mullingar and Tullamore.

View class details and book your place online via our website > https://www.parentfirstaid.ie/courses-2/

24/01/2026

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24/01/2026

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22/01/2026

Terrible news! Awareness needed of the dangers of button batteries in the home 🚨

A mother has told of the devastating moment her two-year-old daughter died after swallowing a button battery that burned through her oesophagus and a main artery. 💔

Harper-Lee Fanthorpe died after what began as a seemingly normal Sunday morning.

Mum Stacy Nicklin said that the toddler was pointing to her mouth, something she often did, as she had suffered from septic tonsillitis from a very young age.

Stacy, 40, then tucked Harper-Lee into bed before heading off to work.

But she received a frantic phone call an hour later from daughter Jamie-Leigh, 23, who said that the tot was spitting blood.

She rushed home to find Harper-Lee in an ambulance. 🚑🚨

“I’d told Harper-Lee that her throat would be better soon – little did I know that she was telling me she’d swallowed something,” said Stacy, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.

“I put her in my bed with Jamie-Leigh. I was only at work for an hour when I had a feeling that I needed to check my phone. There were missed calls and messages that didn’t make sense so I FaceTimed Jamie-Leigh – and Harper was covered in blood.

“A friend from work rushed me home and the paramedics said they needed to wait for a doctor because they’d never seen anything like it before and they didn’t know where the bleeding was coming from.”

Stacy, who has another daughter, Kyla, 18, says that Harper-Lee was rushed to Royal Stoke University Hospital where a camera was inserted to find the source of the bleeding.

Surgeons confirmed they’d discovered a button battery from an LED light remote lodged inside Harper-Lee’s body.

It had burned through her oesophagus and into a main artery leading to her heart.

Doctors said Harper-Lee needed to be transferred to Birmingham Children’s Hospital but would not survive the journey. 💔

Stacy said: “When they said she’d swallowed a battery, I had no idea she wouldn’t make it. Then they said she wouldn’t survive and I collapsed. I said ‘Please try and do everything you can to save my baby girl’.

“All I can remember is him saying ‘I'm so sorry’. That's all I heard before I went into shock and fell to the floor. I kept saying ‘I need to go and tell my other daughters’ but they already knew because they heard me scream, which was so piercing.

She died on May 21, 2021.

22/01/2026

We have a few tickets remaining on this evenings 2 hour Parent First Aid classes in Sligo and Sandyford. Class priced at €50 person.

Class & Online Booking - https://www.parentfirstaid.ie/courses-2/

19/01/2026

Did you know that these everyday household items are highly toxic and dangerous to children?
✅ Button batteries.
✅ Alcohol - from hand gels and mouthwashes.
✅ Ni****ne - from vapes and ci******es.
✅ Oven & drain cleaners.
✅ Muscle & vapour rubs.
✅ Pure essentail oils.
Always store poisons in a locked press or on a high shelf out of reach and sight of children.
National Poisons Information Centre. 01 809 2166