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Kidzone Out Of School Clubs

  • 63 registered places
  • BL4 8EX
  • Bolton Safeguarding Children Partnership

Evidence of the local risks around this club, ready for your safeguarding policy, your risk assessment and your inspector.

The report brings together what children's services across Bolton, the police and the roads record around the club, written in the language of the early years foundation stage framework. It describes the area. It never rates the setting, its staff or its children.

£149 for 12 months

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First finding · What children's services record across Bolton

Across Bolton, children's social care recorded a parent or carer's mental health; domestic abuse, a parent or carer as victim; drug misuse by a parent or carer; alcohol misuse by a parent or carer; neglect; emotional abuse; and physical abuse by an adult in a higher share of assessments than across England.

See the figures behind it

  • Road collisions within 500 m 36 5 children injured, 5 in drop-off and collection hours, 12 killed or seriously injured, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 1 1 is the most deprived tenth, 10 the least
  • Child protection plans 42.2 children in every 10,000 on child protection plans across Bolton, year to 31 March 2025 England: 40.6
  • Police-recorded crime Report only UK Crime Statistics' analysis of the police record around the club. Order the report
Sources and method

These describe the surroundings, never the site. Ofsted publishes the setting's postcode, not its coordinates, so distances are measured from the centre of the postcode, which can sit a street or two from the door. Road collisions: Department for Transport road casualty statistics. Deprivation: English Indices of Deprivation and Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation. Places: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (OS Open Greenspace), and National Public Transport Access Nodes. Public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Children's services: Department for Education, Children in need, reporting year 2025.

Why clubs order it

  1. The question an inspector may ask, answered. How do you know the risks children face around the club? The report is your evidence, every figure sourced and dated.
  2. A dozen sources. One report. Gathering the public record by hand takes a day or two. We do it for Kidzone Out Of School Clubs and write it in the guidance's words.
  3. Ready to use, not just to read. The paragraph for your safeguarding policy, a one-page staff briefing, slides for the staff session, and the paragraph for your owner or committee.
  4. The police record, analysed for you. The police record around the club, the streets it returns to most, and what the area means for the children you escort come only with the report.

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  • The report
  • The staff briefing and slides
  • The evidence pack
  • The dashboard for the year

£149 per setting for 12 months, the same for every nursery, pre-school or club on an order. Paid by card. We email you when it is ready, usually within an hour of payment. What's included.

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What children's services record across Bolton

Factors inside the home: share of assessments, Bolton against England, the widest gap above England first

Bolton England

  • Domestic abuse, a parent or carer as victim 42.1% against 31.7%
  • Drug misuse by a parent or carer 21.5% against 14.1%
  • Alcohol misuse by a parent or carer 19.7% against 14.3%
  • A parent or carer's mental health 38.1% against 33.5%
  • Emotional abuse 23.1% against 19%
  • Physical abuse by an adult 15.5% against 12%
  • Neglect 19.6% against 17.6%
  • A parent or carer's learning disability 2.7% against 3%

This describes what social workers record for the whole authority, never this setting or its children, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm.

What the report contains

Written for the manager and the practitioner who leads on safeguarding, in the language of the early years foundation stage framework and Ofsted's early years inspection toolkit.

Your report, chapter by chapter

Kidzone Out Of School Clubs ยท safeguarding context report 2026

What it writes for you

  • Safeguarding policy in 3 places
  • Staff training in 2 places
  • Self-evaluation in 2 places
  • Inspector's questions in 2 places
  • Risk assessment in 4 places
  • Staff briefing in 1 place
  • Owner or committee in 1 place

Quoted lines are already in the public record for this site; the rest is added when you order.

  1. What children's services record

    Children in need and protection plans across the authority, and the factors social workers record inside the home: a parent's mental health, domestic abuse, substance misuse and neglect, beside England.

    Across Bolton, children's social care recorded a parent or carer's mental health; domestic abuse, a parent or carer as victim; drug misuse by a parent or carer; alcohol misuse by a parent or carer; neglect; emotional abuse; and physical abuse by an adult in a higher share of assessments than across England.

    Feeds
    • Safeguarding policy
    • Staff training

  2. Young children's health, and early education and disadvantage

    The local area data Ofsted reviews before an inspection, for the authority the club sits in.

    Feeds
    • Self-evaluation
    • Inspector's questions

  3. The recorded picture around the setting

    Police-recorded incidents at map points nearby, from UK Crime Statistics, described as the streets families cross rather than as a score.

    Added when you order: UK Crime Statistics' analysis of the area around the site.

    Feeds
    • Risk assessment
    • Staff briefing

  4. Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH), for school-age children

    What the authority records about exploitation and going missing, and the public indicators nearby, with what staff who escort children can and cannot read into them.

    Added when you order: UK Crime Statistics' analysis of the area around the site.

    Feeds
    • Staff training
    • Risk assessment

  5. Places and outings

    Parks, play spaces and stops nearby, drawn from the data for the risk assessment.

    13 parks, play spaces and playing fields lie within a kilometre of the club. The nearest station or bus interchange is Farnworth Bus Station, about 130 metres away. 27 bus stops lie within 500 metres. These are the places outings reach and the stops families arrive by; the report names them for the risk assessment.

    Feeds
    • Risk assessment

  6. Local safeguarding arrangements

    The partnership, the report-a-concern page, the designated officer's route for allegations against staff, and the family hubs.

    Covered by Bolton Safeguarding Children Partnership. The report names three local routes: reporting a concern, the designated officer and family hubs; links checked 27 September 2026.

    Feeds
    • Safeguarding policy

  7. Also around the setting: roads

    Collisions in drop-off and collection hours, printed with their limits.

    Between 2021 and 2025 the police recorded 36 injury collisions within 500 metres of the club. 12 collisions involved someone killed or seriously injured; there were 6 pedestrian casualties and 5 cyclist casualties, and 5 of the collisions fell in weekday drop-off and collection hours. Over the same years the typical school or college in England and Wales had 11 within 500 metres.

    Feeds
    • Risk assessment

Then the paragraphs for the policy, the self-evaluation and the owner or committee, and the inspector's questions answered.

  • Safeguarding policy
  • Self-evaluation
  • Owner or committee
  • Inspector's questions

The full report for Kidzone Out Of School Clubs. £149 per setting for 12 months, the same for every nursery, pre-school or club on an order.

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Local safeguarding arrangements

The club is covered by Bolton Safeguarding Children Partnership.

If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 27 September 2026.

The register entry
Kind of provision
Out-of-school club
Registers
Early Years Register; Childcare Register, compulsory part; Childcare Register, voluntary part
Registered places
63
Registered since
10 October 2017
Postcode
BL4 8EX
Local authority
Bolton
Ofsted number
EY551846
Registered person
Kidzone Out Of School Clubs Limited

Other nurseries, pre-schools and clubs: in Bolton. Local authority: Bolton (147 open schools and colleges).

  • What is a safeguarding threshold document, and where is my area's?

    A threshold document, sometimes called the continuum of need, is the local safeguarding partnership's guide to when a concern about a child should go to early help or to children's social care. Every partnership in England is expected to publish one; in Wales the Wales Safeguarding Procedures apply, with threshold guidance from some regional boards. This guide says what it is for and where to find yours.

  • Is a crime map enough evidence of local risks for Ofsted?

    A crime map is a start, not the whole answer. It shows what the police record around an address; it cannot show what children's services record about harm to children, where pupils gather after school, or how the school has acted, which an inspector may ask about.

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