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Pen-Y-Cwm Special School: safeguarding context
The safeguarding context around Pen-Y-Cwm Special School: what the public record says about the streets, routes and roads children use to reach it, and what that means for the school's policy. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the school.
The register entry
- Unique reference number
- 401925
- Type
- Welsh establishment
- Type group
- Welsh schools
- Status
- Open
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Gender
- Not applicable
- UK provider reference number
- 10013873
- Postcode
- NP23 6AN
- Country
- Wales
- Register last checked
- 23 September 2026
Local authority: Blaenau Gwent (25 open schools).
About this school's place in the register
Pen-Y-Cwm Special School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 401925. The register records it as a welsh establishment, in the group the Department calls welsh schools. Its UK provider reference number is 10013873. The register was last checked on 23 September 2026.
The intake is recorded as not applicable.
The school is in Wales, at postcode NP23 6AN. Its grid reference is easting 317352, northing 208236, which is latitude 51.7667 and longitude -3.1991. That point is the centre of everything the safeguarding context report measures: the streets within a short walk, the routes to the nearest transport and shops, the roads at the gate, and the neighbourhood statistics that surround it.
Pen-Y-Cwm Special School sits in the Blaenau Gwent local authority area, which has 25 open establishments in the register. The local authority is the body that publishes the local safeguarding partnership arrangements, the threshold document and the early help offer that a school's child protection policy refers to, so the same authority context applies to every school in Blaenau Gwent.
The nearest schools in the register to Pen-Y-Cwm Special School are River Centre 3-16 Learning Community (1.9 km away), Willowtown Primary School (1.9 km away), All Saints R.C. Primary School (2.0 km away), Georgetown C.P. School (2.5 km away) and Cwm Primary School (2.7 km away). Distances are straight lines between grid references, not walking routes. Several schools within walking distance of each other share the same streets, crossings, parks and shops, so the context described for one usually applies to its neighbours too.
What the report for Pen-Y-Cwm Special School contains
An annual report, written for the Designated Safeguarding Lead, that reads the public record for the environment around this school and says what it means in the language of Keeping Children Safe in Education and contextual safeguarding. Each chapter is mapped to the policy paragraph, the governors' annual report or the inspection question it evidences. The recorded picture at the gate comes from UK Crime Statistics, our sister service; the rest is evidence a crime map does not carry.
- The recorded picture at the gate. Police-recorded incidents within a short walk, from UK Crime Statistics, described as the streets a child crosses rather than as a score, and turned into the context paragraph the policy asks for.
- Exploitation indicators. The public signals of criminal and sexual exploitation in the area, and what a DSL can and cannot read into them.
- Places and routes where risk sits. Parks, shops, transport stops and underpasses on the way in, drawn from the data rather than from reputation.
- Road danger at the gate. Collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists on the surrounding roads, with what a School Street request needs.
- Air quality and catchment deprivation. The neighbourhood statistics that shape the context, printed with their limits.
- Policy paragraph, governor paragraph and inspector questions. Ready to paste, answered from the findings above.
With the report comes the insight dashboard for Pen-Y-Cwm Special School: the trend by month, every category, the streets that recur and the comparison with Blaenau Gwent and the national picture, live for the year.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.