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Fircroft College of Adult Education

  • Further education
  • B29 6LH
  • Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership

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

Keeping children safe in education asks you to consider whether children are at risk outside their families. The report brings together what children's services across Birmingham, the police and the roads record around the campus and the journeys its students make. It describes the area. It never rates the college, its staff or its students.

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

Across Birmingham, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, gangs and going missing in a higher share of assessments than across England.

See the figures behind it

  • Road collisions within 500 m 18 4 killed or seriously injured, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 6 1 is the most deprived tenth, 10 the least
  • Domestic abuse at home 44.5% of children's social care assessments across Birmingham name a parent or carer as its victim, year to 31 March 2025 England: 31.7%
  • 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. 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: Department for Education, Children in need, reporting year 2025.

Why colleges order it

  1. The question an inspector may ask, answered. How do you know the risks students face around the college? 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 Fircroft College of Adult Education 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 corporation board.
  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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Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Birmingham

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH): share of assessments, Birmingham against England, the widest gap above England first

Birmingham England

  • Child criminal exploitation 5.2% against 3.2%
  • Gangs 2.5% against 1.7%
  • Going missing 3.8% against 3.3%
  • Trafficking 0.4% against 0.4%
  • Child sexual exploitation 1.9% against 2.4%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 1.9% against 2.5%
  • Physical abuse by another child 2% against 3%

This describes what social workers record for children across the whole authority, never this college or its students, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm.

What the report contains

Written for the designated safeguarding lead, to Keeping children safe in education and Ofsted's further education and skills inspection toolkit, for students under eighteen, with the recorded picture from our exclusive partner, UK Crime Statistics.

Your report, chapter by chapter

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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 social workers across the authority record at assessment, beside England, and what it means for the policy and staff training.

    Across Birmingham, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, gangs and going missing in a higher share of assessments than across England.

    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 students 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 lead 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 students pass through, with the streets that recur in the record around them.

    15 parks, open spaces and playing fields lie within a kilometre of the campus. No station or bus interchange lies within a kilometre. 12 bus stops lie within 500 metres.

    Feeds
    • Staff briefing

  5. The area around the campus

    The deprivation of the place students come into each day.

    The neighbourhood the campus stands in (a small statistical area of about 1,500 residents) is in decile 6 of the English Indices of Deprivation, around the middle for England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in decile 8. 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 students travel.

    Between 2021 and 2025 the police recorded 18 injury collisions within 500 metres of the campus. 4 collisions involved someone killed or seriously injured. Fewer than 3 of the casualties were 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 corporation board and the inspector's questions, ready to paste, answered from the findings above.

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

The full report for Fircroft College of Adult Education. £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 Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership.

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

The register entry
Unique reference number
130467
Type
Further education
Type group
Colleges
Status
Open
Phase
16 plus
Age range
19 to 99
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Does not apply
UK provider reference number
10008641
Postcode
B29 6LH
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026

Local authority of the registered site: Birmingham.

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.