Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements

Visit the Bolton Safeguarding Children Partnership website

Framework for action threshold document
The Bolton Framework for Action outlines how local practitioners work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in our area. It sets out the thresholds that all partners will apply when working with children and their parents.

Follow this link for all of your safeguarding training needs: Multi-agency safeguarding training – Bolton Safeguarding Children

Training Dates 2025 - Child Sexual Abuse (New)

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