{"id":23618,"date":"2023-01-20T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/20\/england-school-defibrillator-rollout-after-dads-campaign\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:33:56","slug":"england-school-defibrillator-rollout-after-dads-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=23618","title":{"rendered":"England school defibrillator rollout after dad&#8217;s campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In 2011, 12-year-old Oliver died when his heart stopped during a school swimming lesson. He had an undiagnosed heart condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">His father Mark King started the Oliver King Foundation and campaigned for all schools in England to have defibrillators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">With help from some of Oliver&#8217;s school friends and former footballer Jamie Carragher, Mr King&#8217;s mission succeeded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Now the rollout has started, with the life saving devices being distributed to state schools who don&#8217;t already have one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">According to the Department for Education, 20,000 defibrillators will be delivered to almost 18,000 state-funded schools by the end of the academic year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr King spoke to BBC Breakfast about the milestone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64343953?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In 2011, 12-year-old Oliver died when his heart stopped during a school swimming lesson. He had an undiagnosed heart condition. His father Mark King started the Oliver King Foundation &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}