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Wakefield College: safeguarding context
A college of Heart of Yorkshire Education Group. Margaret Street, Wakefield, WF1 2DH.
The safeguarding context around Wakefield College: what the public record says about the streets, stations and stops around the college and the journeys its students make, read against Wakefield, the local authority the college is in. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the college.
Order the report for Wakefield 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.
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Harm outside the home across Wakefield
Across Wakefield, 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 Wakefield 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 Heart of Yorkshire Education 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 Wakefield Safeguarding Children Partnership.
- Its procedures, guidance and training: https://www.wakefieldscp.org.uk/
- To report a concern about a child: https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/children-and-families/safeguarding/report-child-abuse/
If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 27 September 2026.
Where else Heart of Yorkshire Education Group teaches
Other colleges in the group
- Castleford College, Wakefield
- Selby College, North Yorkshire
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.