Defibrillators to be supplied to every state school in UK by next summer

EVERY state school will have a defibrillator by next summer in a victory for the campaigning parents of a tragic youngster.

Ministers made the promise after hearing that 12-year-old Oliver King might have survived if one had been available.

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He went into cardiac arrest during a swimming race at a Liverpool school in 2011.

Education Secretary James Cleverly vowed at least 20,000 defibrillators would be installed.

Oliver’s parents Mark and Joanne welcomed the pledge.

Mr King said: “It will mean families won’t have to go through the pain that we did.”

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