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Early Years Team - Belfast Trust Belfast Trust Logo

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Address
Everton Complex, 585-587 Crumlin Road, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT14 7GB
Contact Person
Telephone Number
01252 332344
Email Address
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Web Address
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Additional Information

Early Years Teams are specialist teams of social workers within Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts who are responsible for the registration, inspection, monitoring and support of child minders and day care providers.

Registration and inspection system By law, Social Services must operate a registration and inspection system for the following types of childcare services :

Day nurseries playgroups out-of-school care child minders summer and holiday schemes creches Some types of childcare do not require registration and inspection, these include nannies/au pairs, services that cater for children over 12 years old, services which run for less than 2 hours a day or services which operate for less than 6 days per year.

For group daycare settings, such as day nurseries, playgroups and out-of-school care, social workers within Early Years Teams inspect premises at least annually.

They will check : the suitability of the premises, ensuring that they are safe to be used as a facility to provide care to children the suitability of the persons providing care, ensuring that there is no known reason why they are not able to work with children that the standard of care offered is in keeping with that which is required by any registered facility the suitability of equipment Childminders are also inspected annually. Before child minders are registered, the social worker will check that their homes are safe for young children. A number of checks, including criminal record checks, are carried out on the prospective child minder and any member of the household who is over ten.

The most up-to- date list of registered Childcare providers is available on www.familysupportni.gov.uk - Search Childcare Services.

You can best check for childcare by choosing type of childcare (use Drop-down bar) then input your (full) postcode – indicate within 1/5/10 miles. You can filter results by (tick boxes) vacancies / experience of special needs/school pick-up etc to find childcare which best meets your needs .

To find out more about the registration process, for further guidance in relation to application forms or other information please contact your local Early Years office Central Number for Belfast Trust Early Years 028 9504 2811or email earlyyears@belfasttrust.hscni.net

Available to Age Groups
0-12 Years
Category of Services
  • Partnership Organisation
Areas covered
  • Belfast
  • Castlereagh
Method of Access (Referral)
  • Health Visitor
  • Self
  • Social Worker



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