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Nelson and Colne College: safeguarding context
A college of East Lancashire Learning Group. Scotland Road, Nelson, BB9 7YT.
The safeguarding context around Nelson and Colne College: what the public record says about the streets, stations and stops around the college and the journeys its students make, read against Lancashire, the local authority the college is in. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the college.
Order the report for Nelson and Colne 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 Nelson and Colne College Order for the whole group: 2 reports
Harm outside the home across Lancashire
Across Lancashire, children's social care recorded child sexual exploitation, gangs, going missing, trafficking and sexual 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 Nelson and Colne 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 location the school register gives for East Lancashire Learning Group, which is this college.
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 Lancashire Children's Safeguarding Assurance Partnership.
- Its procedures, guidance and training: https://lancashiresafeguardingpartnership.org.uk/
- To report a concern about a child: https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/keeping-children-safe/tell-us-if-you-are-worried-about-a-child/
If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 27 September 2026.
Where else East Lancashire Learning Group teaches
Other colleges in the group
- Accrington and Rossendale College, Lancashire
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.