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Highfield Nursery School

  • Nursery
  • Ages 0 to 5
  • 145 pupils
  • B8 3QF
  • Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership

Evidence of the local risks around this nursery school, ready for your child protection 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 school. It describes the area around the school. It never rates the school, its staff or its children.

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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.

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KCSIEFor schools and colleges

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Why it matters

Schools must consider the risks children face outside their families. This gives you the local evidence to do it.

“should consider whether children are at risk of abuse or exploitation in situations outside their families”

Keeping children safe in education 2026, paragraph 21

What you get

  1. The evidence What the police, children's services and the roads record around the school, sourced and dated. For your child protection policy KCSIE paragraph 21
  2. The staff briefing One page and six slides on what the area means for your staff. For the yearly staff safeguarding update KCSIE paragraph 12
  3. The governors' paragraph Ready for the annual safeguarding report, with the inspector's questions answered. For governors' oversight and inspection Ofsted's school inspection toolkit

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  • Road collisions within 500 m 75 16 children injured, 13 in drop-off and collection hours, 17 killed or seriously injured, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 1 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 school. Order the report
Sources and method

These describe the surroundings, never the site. Three distances, each for a reason: 500 metres is the streets nearest the gate, about six minutes' walk; a kilometre takes in the routes in; a mile is the area UK Crime Statistics ranks against every other mile in England and Wales. 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.

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 the whole authority, never this school or its children, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm. For a nursery school these figures matter most for older brothers and sisters and for the families staff see at the door.

Local safeguarding arrangements

The school is covered by Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership.

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

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The register entry
Unique reference number
103125
Type
Local authority nursery school
Type group
Local authority maintained schools
Status
Open
Phase
Nursery
Age range
0 to 5
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Does not apply
Pupils on roll
145
Free school meals
25.8 percent
Federation
The Birmingham Federation of Maintained Nursery Schools
Postcode
B8 3QF
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026
Website
http://www.hifieldn.bham.sch.uk

Local authority: Birmingham (511 open schools and colleges).

About this school's place in the register

Highfield Nursery School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 103125. Its type in the register is "Local authority nursery school", in the group the Department calls "Local authority maintained schools". It belongs to a federation of schools: The Birmingham Federation of Maintained Nursery Schools. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 25 September 2026.

Its phase of education is nursery. The statutory age range is 0 to 5: every child is brought to the door by an adult, so the context that matters is the streets families use and the places the nursery visits. The intake is recorded as mixed. At the last school census 145 pupils were on roll, and 25.8 percent of them were eligible for free school meals, a register figure the report never uses to describe pupils. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.

The school is in England, at postcode B8 3QF. Its grid reference is easting 410315, northing 288375, which is latitude 52.4932 and longitude -1.8495. That point is the centre of everything the safeguarding context report measures: the streets within a short walk, the parks, stops and stations nearby, the roads at the gate, and the neighbourhood statistics that surround it.

Highfield Nursery School sits in the Birmingham local authority area, which has 511 open establishments in the register. The local authority is one of the three statutory safeguarding partners, with the integrated care board and the police, who together publish the local safeguarding arrangements and the threshold document a school's child protection policy refers to; the authority also sets out its early help offer, so the same authority context applies to every school in Birmingham.

The nearest schools in the register to Highfield Nursery School are Highfield Junior and Infant School (about 30 metres away), Rockwood Academy (about 380 metres away), Nansen Primary School (about 380 metres away), Leigh Primary School (about 520 metres away) and St Saviour's C of E Primary School (about 570 metres away). Distances are straight lines between grid references, not walking routes. Schools close together share many of the same streets, stops and parks, but each page and report is measured from that school's own site.

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