Defibrillators to be installed in all English state schools by end of next school year

Government will fund safety measure after 10-year campaign by parents of Oliver King, who died of cardiac arrest during swim race

All state schools in England will have a defibrillator by the end of the 2022/23 academic year, the government has announced.

Department for Education (DfE) officials met campaigners including Mark King, whose 12-year-old son Oliver suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while competing in a swimming race in 2011.