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Merrist Wood College: safeguarding context
A college of Activate Learning. Holly Lane, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3PE.
The safeguarding context around Merrist Wood College: what the public record says about the streets, stations and stops around the college and the journeys its students make, read against Surrey, the local authority the college is in. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the college.
Order the report for Merrist Wood College
£149 per college or campus for a year, the same for every college, campus and school on an order. The report, the staff briefing, the insight dashboard and the action log for this college.
Order for Merrist Wood College Order for the whole group: 8 reports
This college is in Surrey, not the authority the group is registered in, so its partnership, its referral route and the children's services figures below are Surrey's.
Harm outside the home across Surrey
Across Surrey, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, going missing, trafficking and physical abuse by another child in a higher share of assessments than across England.
This describes what social workers record for children across the whole authority, never this college or its students.
The area around Merrist Wood College
What the published data says about the area around the college, with the roads and air alongside. These figures describe the surroundings; none of them is a measure of the college. The figures are measured from the centre of the college's postcode, GU3 3PE, which can sit a short way from the entrance on a large site.
Road collisions: Department for Transport road casualty statistics. Air quality: Defra pollution climate mapping, © Crown copyright. 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.
Local safeguarding arrangements
The college is covered by Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership.
- Its procedures, guidance and training: https://www.surreyscp.org.uk/
- To report a concern about a child: https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/social-care-and-health/childrens-social-care/contact-childrens-services
If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 27 September 2026.
Where else Activate Learning teaches
Other colleges in the group
- Bracknell and Wokingham College, Bracknell Forest
- Farnham College, Surrey
- Guildford College, Surrey
- Reading College, Reading
Campuses
- Banbury and Bicester College Banbury Campus, Oxfordshire
- Blackbird Leys Technology Campus, Oxfordshire
- City of Oxford College City Centre Campus, Oxfordshire
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.