Working with children

Working with children

Working with children


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.

We work in partnership with the Start Well Service  who support the early years workforce and other professionals to ensure the best possible start in life for every child.

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