The Oliver King Foundation is campaigning for the government to install defibrillators in all public buildings in the next five years and wants ECG scans for all 14 to 35-year-olds.
Oliver King was a pupil at King David High School in Childwall, Liverpool, when in March last year he died during a swimming lesson after suffering Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome – the same condition that saw Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba collapse during a game earlier this year.
It is thought that 270 children die every year of a sudden cardiac arrest while at school.
Oliver’s family believe that if a defibrillator had been available then he might have survived.
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