Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements

Bolton Safeguarding Guidance

Bolton Safeguarding Guidance: Childminders
Guidance for reviewing and writing a safeguarding policy and procedure for Childminders.

Bolton Safeguarding Guidance: Daycare and Out of School Settings
Guidance for reviewing and writing a safeguarding policy and procedure for Daycare and Out of School Settings.

Training Dates 2025 - Child Sexual Abuse

The North-West Regional Improvement Pilot is providing a range of training opportunities this year, to develop practitioner knowledge and skills in Child Sexual Abuse. The sessions will showcase practice resources from the Centre for Expertise for Child Sexual Abuse. Frontline practitioners, managers, and other leaders are invited to attend. The sessions are designed to support understanding, identification, and response to Child Sexual Abuse in the family environment. The dates, times and venues of these sessions can be found here: Regional Approach to Child Sexual Abuse.

Further Learning and Development

Visit Working with children – Learning and development (bolton.gov.uk) to complete 'Keeping Children Safe - Basic', 'Adult Safeguarding', 'Early Help' etc. Follow the link and select the 'Open Access Learning Platform' link, this will take you to a new e-learning platform, where you can create a free account or log in direct to the courses.

If you have any difficulties with the new platform, email e-learning@bolton.gov.uk 

Other guidance

Working together to safeguard children 2023 - Statutory Guidance

Ofsted guidance: Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills

Keeping children safe in education: childcare disqualification requirements – supplementary advice