More than 100,000 people signed the e-petition started by Dan and Joanne Thompson after their nine-month-old baby Millie died after choking on food at the Ramillies Hall nursery in Stockport two years ago.
The parents set up Millie’s Trust in memory of their daughter and started the e-petition in the hope of triggering a debate calling for compulsory first aid training in nurseries.
Mark Hunter, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cheadle, is leading the debate in Parliament calling for a change in the law to ensure that every nursery worker is trained in paediatric first aid.
‘Most parents when they get their child into a nursery would probably expect that all the nursery staff would be adequately trained in things like paediatric first aid care,' he said.
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