Welcome to children's training
Our team offers a comprehensive, high quality training programme to suit the mandatory and essential training requirements of the children’s workforce. Please find on the right of the page, under "In this section" title, evrything what we do to support training and development of the chidren workforce includng our current training programmes.
Our training is open to all staff and practitioners who come under the umbrella of Children’s Services including:
- all schools and academies
- early years
- private, voluntary and independent providers
- family hubs
- childminders
- voluntary, community and faith sectors
- youth and play
- foster carers
Our face to face training sessions are based at Castle Hill Training Centre and other venues throughout the borough, whilst other courses are delivered online via Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
All our courses can be delivered to your own organisations as bespoke courses– just send us an email letting us know what you want, and we will arrange it for you learninganddevelopment@bolton.gov.uk
Childminder Start-up Grant application deadlines
We would like to remind you of the application deadlines as we approach the final few months of the childminder start-up grant scheme.
As you will be aware, new childminders who wish to apply for the grant will need to finalise their Ofsted or CMA registration by 31 March 2025.
However, we recognise that in some circumstances childminder registration may be delayed due to registration checks (for example, GP health checks) taking longer than expected. For this reason, an applicant who submits their registration to Ofsted or a CMA by 3 January 2025 will still be eligible to apply for the grant if completion of their registration is delayed beyond 31 March 2025 for reasons relating to the completion of registration checks. In these cases, we will require Ofsted or CMAs to confirm that a registration has been delayed for these reasons.
We would be grateful if you could use any upcoming opportunities (newsletters, forums, social media etc) to let those in your LA who may be thinking about becoming a childminder about the above dates to be sure of being eligible for the grant.
Apply for a childminder start-up grant
