For Designated Safeguarding Leads, trusts and governors
The safeguarding context around your school, written for the policy
An annual report and a live insight dashboard that turn the public data about the streets, routes and roads around a school into the paragraphs a child protection policy, a governors' report and an inspection conversation need. It describes the context. It never rates the school.
- Every open school in England and Wales
- Built on UK Crime Statistics
- Card or purchase order
- Written for KCSIE and Keeping Learners Safe
What you get
Enter the school and the service reads the public record for the area around its gate and along the routes children take to it, then says what each finding means for the school's safeguarding. Every finding ends with the paragraph, the line or the inspection question it evidences.
The annual report
A binder-ready PDF in six chapters: the recorded picture at the gate, exploitation indicators, places and routes, road danger, the neighbourhood, and the policy paragraph, governor paragraph and inspector questions written out for the school.
Find your schoolThe insight dashboard
The same sources, live: the trend by month, every category, the streets that recur, and how the area compares with its local authority and the national picture. Switch radius, compare two schools you hold, export the figures.
See the dashboardsThe paragraphs
The context paragraph for the child protection policy, the paragraph for the governors' annual safeguarding report, and the questions the inspectorate asks about local risks, answered from the findings. Ready to paste, with the data month and the limits stated.
See a worked paragraphTwo services, two jobs
Safeguarding Context is built on UK Crime Statistics, our sister service. They share their data and their owner, and they answer different questions.
UK Crime Statistics
Describes places
What is recorded around any address in England and Wales, mapped street by street and scored against every comparable neighbourhood. For movers, buyers, landlords, insurers and anyone who wants the figures for a place.
Crime figures for an addressSafeguarding Context
Describes duties
What the surroundings of one school mean for its safeguarding duties, written in the words of the statutory guidance: the gate and the routes children walk, road danger, exploitation indicators and the neighbourhood, ending in the paragraphs the policy, the governors and the inspector need.
The safeguarding case for a schoolAlready have a UK Crime Statistics report for the school's postcode? Keep it. It answers how much is recorded. This report answers what the inspector asks: what the local risks are and how the policy reflects them, with the road, route and neighbourhood evidence a crime map does not carry.
Six chapters, in words
The recorded picture at the gate
Police-recorded incidents within a short walk over the last year, from UK Crime Statistics, read as the streets a child crosses rather than as a score, compared with the wider area so a quiet neighbourhood reads as quiet.
Exploitation indicators
The public signals of criminal and sexual exploitation in the area, and what a DSL can and cannot read into them. Prompts for vigilance, never evidence about a pupil.
Places and routes
Parks, shops, transport stops and underpasses on the way in, drawn from the data rather than from reputation, so the policy can name places and staff on the gate know which streets matter.
Road danger at the gate
Injury collisions on the surrounding roads over five years, by severity and casualty type, with the school-run pattern and the text a School Street request to the highway authority needs.
The neighbourhood
Deprivation and air quality, the statistics that shape the context and the early help offer, printed with their limits.
Policy, governors, inspection
The context paragraph, the governor paragraph and the inspector's questions, answered from the chapters above and dated for the annual review.
How it works
- Find your school
Every open school in England and Wales has a page here with its register entry and the schools around it.
- Order the report
Pay by card, or raise a purchase order and pay the invoice within thirty days by bank transfer. Add every school in a trust to one order.
- Download and explore
The PDF is ready the moment the order is delivered, and the insight dashboard opens for each school on it.
- Paste the paragraphs
Put the context paragraph in the policy, the governor paragraph in the annual report, and keep the dashboard as the evidence for the inspection conversation.
Who it is for
Designated Safeguarding Leads
Who need the local context behind the child protection policy and the evidence to show an inspector, without a week of research.
Trust safeguarding leads
Who need it for every school in the estate on one invoice with a purchase order reference, and a dashboard to compare two schools they hold.
Governors and small-school heads
Who hold the DSL role themselves and have no one to delegate the research to, and who need the governor paragraph written.
Guides
Short, practical pieces: what Ofsted means by local risks, a worked context paragraph for the policy, and how to read collision data at the gate. All guides.