Childcare CPR & first aid requirements
First Aid & CPR Barbados
If you work in childcare in Barbados — whether at a daycare, preschool, home-based care, or camp — first aid and CPR certification is not optional. It's a licensing requirement, and for good reason: children are among the most vulnerable to choking, allergic reactions, and injuries. Being prepared to respond can mean everything.
What Barbados requires
Barbados regulates private child-care centres through the Child Care Board (Private Child Care Centres) Regulations, 1986, which ask that staff hold "appropriate training or experience" and produce an annual medical certificate and food-handling certificate. The regulations stop short of naming first aid or CPR as a specific requirement, so there is no strict statutory mandate on that point. What the law leaves open, good practice should fill: in a room full of small children, caregivers able to respond to a medical emergency are what "appropriate training" ought to mean.
Anaphylaxis and medication administration
Barbadian child-care regulations contain no anaphylaxis or epinephrine provisions, and auto-injectors are prescription-only and subject to intermittent supply shortages rather than being stocked in centres. For a child with a known allergy, the dependable approach is to keep the family's prescribed device on site — with written parental consent, clear dosage instructions and safe storage that staff can reach without delay.
How our courses meet these requirements
A recognized, standards-based certification in pediatric first aid and CPR meets Barbados’s requirement and keeps your team ready to act.
Don't wait for renewal day
In an emergency a child cannot wait — a blocked airway or a stopped heart leaves only minutes, and those minutes belong to whoever is closest. Families choose a centre on trust, and few things earn that trust like knowing every caregiver is certified to respond. A recognised, standards-based certification in paediatric first aid and CPR turns "appropriate training" from a phrase in a regulation into real readiness on the floor.