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Ystrad Mynach Campus

A campus of Coleg y Cymoedd. Twyn Road, Ystrad Mynach, CF82 7XR.

  • Gwent Safeguarding Board

Evidence of the local risks around this campus, ready for your safeguarding policy, your staff and your inspector.

Written to Keeping learners safe, the report brings together what children's services across Caerphilly, the local authority the campus is in, the police and the roads record around it and the journeys its learners make. It describes the area. It never rates the college, its staff or its learners.

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First finding · Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Caerphilly

Across Caerphilly, children's services recorded 55 children where child exploitation was a factor in 2024-25 (April 2024 to March 2025, the latest year published), 15.6 per 10,000 children, lower than across Wales (26.1).

See the figures behind it

  • Road collisions within 500 m 3 fewer than 3 killed or seriously injured, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 9 1 is the most deprived tenth, 10 the least
  • Child protection register 39.2 children in every 10,000 on the child protection register across Caerphilly, 2024-25 Wales: 44.9
  • Police-recorded crime Report only UK Crime Statistics' analysis of the police record around the campus. Order the report
Sources and method

These describe the surroundings, never the site. The figures are measured from the centre of the campus's postcode, CF82 7XR, which can sit a short way from the entrance on a large site. 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: Welsh Government, children's safeguarding measures by local authority, 2024-25; rates per 10,000 children aged under 18 from the ONS mid-2025 population estimates.

Why colleges order it

  1. The question an inspector may ask, answered. How do you know the risks learners face around the campus? 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 Ystrad Mynach Campus 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 the governing body.
  4. The police record, analysed for you. The police record around the campus, the stations and stops it returns to, and UK Crime Statistics' county lines indicator for the mile around it 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 college or campus for 12 months, the same for every college, campus and school 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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This campus is in Caerphilly, not the authority the college is registered in, so its partnership, its referral route and the children's services figures below are Caerphilly's.

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Caerphilly

Across Caerphilly, children's services recorded 55 children where child exploitation was a factor in 2024-25 (April 2024 to March 2025, the latest year published), 15.6 per 10,000 children, lower than across Wales (26.1).

This describes what social workers record for children across the whole authority, never this campus or its learners.

What the report contains

Written for the designated safeguarding person, to Keeping learners safe, for learners under eighteen, with the recorded picture from our exclusive partner, UK Crime Statistics.

Your report, chapter by chapter

Ystrad Mynach Campus ยท safeguarding context report 2026

What it writes for you

  • Safeguarding policy in 3 places
  • Staff training in 2 places
  • Inspector's questions in 2 places
  • Staff briefing in 1 place
  • Context statement in 1 place
  • Governors' report in 2 places
  • Travel safety in 1 place

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

  1. Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH)

    What children's services across the authority record, beside Wales, and what it means for the policy and staff training.

    Across Caerphilly, children's services recorded 55 children where child exploitation was a factor in 2024-25 (April 2024 to March 2025, the latest year published), 15.6 per 10,000 children, lower than across Wales (26.1).

    Feeds
    • Safeguarding policy
    • Staff training

  2. The recorded picture around the campus

    Police-recorded incidents within 500 metres and a kilometre, from UK Crime Statistics, described as the streets learners use rather than as a score.

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

    Feeds
    • Safeguarding policy

  3. Exploitation indicators

    UK Crime Statistics' county lines indicator for the mile around the campus, with the drug, weapons and anti-social behaviour records it read; the places where violence, drugs and weapons offences concentrate; and the bus stations and interchanges where crime was recorded. Each is a prompt for vigilance, with what a designated safeguarding person can and cannot read into it.

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

    Feeds
    • Staff training
    • Inspector's questions

  4. Getting to college

    The stations, bus stops and interchanges learners pass through, with the streets that recur in the record around them.

    10 parks, open spaces and playing fields lie within a kilometre of the campus. The nearest station or bus interchange is Ystrad Mynach Rail Station, about 650 metres away. 4 bus stops lie within 500 metres.

    Feeds
    • Staff briefing

  5. The area around the campus

    The deprivation of the place learners come into each day.

    The neighbourhood the campus stands in (a small statistical area of about 1,500 residents) is in decile 9 of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation, among the least deprived fifth of small areas in Wales. The figure describes the neighbourhood, never a family or a student.

    Feeds
    • Context statement
    • Governors' report

  6. Roads

    Collisions around the campus involving people aged sixteen to nineteen, in the hours learners travel.

    Between 2021 and 2025 the police recorded 3 injury collisions within 500 metres of the campus. Fewer than 3 collisions involved someone killed or seriously injured. None of the casualties was aged sixteen to nineteen. Over the same years the typical school or college in England and Wales had 11 within 500 metres.

    Feeds
    • Travel safety

Then the policy paragraph, a paragraph for the governing body and the inspector's questions, ready to paste, answered from the findings above.

  • Safeguarding policy
  • Governors' report
  • Inspector's questions

The full report for Ystrad Mynach Campus. £149 per college or campus for 12 months, the same for every college, campus and school on an order.

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Local safeguarding arrangements

The campus is covered by Gwent Safeguarding Board, shared with Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen.

If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 1 November 2026.

Where else Coleg y Cymoedd teaches

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