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Central Bedfordshire College: safeguarding context
A college of Bedford College. Central Bedfordshire College, Dunstable, LU5 4HG.
The safeguarding context around Central Bedfordshire College: what the public record says about the streets, stations and stops around the college and the journeys its students make, read against Central Bedfordshire, the local authority the college is in. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the college.
Order the report for Central Bedfordshire 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 Central Bedfordshire College Order for the whole group: 8 reports
This college is in Central Bedfordshire, not the authority the group is registered in, so its partnership, its referral route and the children's services figures below are Central Bedfordshire's.
Harm outside the home across Central Bedfordshire
Across Central Bedfordshire, children's social care recorded sexual abuse by another child 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 Central Bedfordshire 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, LU5 4HG, 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 Central Bedfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership.
- Its procedures, guidance and training: https://safeguardingbedfordshire.org.uk/
- To report a concern about a child: https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/info/11/children_and_young_people/112/child_protection_-_safeguarding_children_and_young_people
If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 27 September 2026.
Where else Bedford College teaches
Other colleges in the group
- Shuttleworth College, Central Bedfordshire
Campuses
- Bedford College, Bedford
- Mount Pleasant Equine Centre, Central Bedfordshire
- National College for Motorsport campus, West Northamptonshire
- Tresham College Corby Campus, North Northamptonshire
- Tresham College Kettering Campus, North Northamptonshire
- Tresham College Wellingborough Campus, North Northamptonshire
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.