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Merton College: safeguarding context
A college of South Thames Colleges Group. London Road, Morden, SM4 5QX.
The safeguarding context around Merton College: what the public record says about the streets, stations and stops around the college and the journeys its students make, read against Merton, the local authority the college is in. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the college.
Order the report for Merton 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 Merton College Order for the whole group: 5 reports
This college is in Merton, not the authority the group is registered in, so its partnership, its referral route and the children's services figures below are Merton's.
Harm outside the home across Merton
Across Merton, children's social care recorded child sexual exploitation 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 Merton 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, SM4 5QX, 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 Merton Safeguarding Children Partnership.
- Its procedures, guidance and training: https://www.mertonscp.org.uk/
- To report a concern about a child: http://www.merton.gov.uk/health-social-care/children-family-health-social-care/lscb/worriedaboutachild.htm
If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 27 September 2026.
Where else South Thames Colleges Group teaches
Other colleges in the group
- Carshalton College, Sutton
Campuses
- Kingston College, Creative Industries Centre, Kingston upon Thames
- Kingston College, Kingston Hall Road Centre, Kingston upon Thames
- South Thames College, Wandsworth Centre, Wandsworth
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.