Safeguarding context · School · Bury
St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- Primary
- Ages 3 to 11
- 339 pupils
- M45 8PT
- Bury Safeguarding Partnership
Evidence of the local risks around this 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 Bury, 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 pupils.
£149 for 12 months
First finding · Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Bury
Across Bury, children's social care recorded child sexual exploitation, gangs, going missing, trafficking, sexual abuse by another child and physical abuse by another child in a higher share of assessments than across England.
KCSIEFor schools and colleges
The safeguarding context report
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
- 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
- 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
- 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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The area in figures
- Road collisions within 500 m 3 no children injured, none in drop-off and pick-up hours, no one 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 32% of children's social care assessments across Bury 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 Bury
This describes what social workers record for the whole authority, never this school or its pupils, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm.
Local safeguarding arrangements
The school is covered by Bury Safeguarding Partnership.
- Report a concern about a childbury.gov.uk
- The partnership's procedures, guidance and trainingburysafeguardingpartnership.bury.gov.uk
If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 1 November 2026.
Nearest schools
The register entry
- Unique reference number
- 150560
- Type
- Academy converter
- Type group
- Academies
- Status
- Open
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Pupils on roll
- 339
- Free school meals
- 4.2 percent
- Trust
- St Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Academy Trust
- UK provider reference number
- 10094553
- Postcode
- M45 8PT
- Country
- England
- Register last checked
- 7 November 2026
Local authority: Bury (92 open schools and colleges). Trust: St Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Academy Trust.
About this school's place in the register
St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 150560. Its type in the register is "Academy converter", in the group the Department calls "Academies". It is part of ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10094553. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 2 November 2026.
Its phase of education is primary. The statutory age range is 3 to 11, which is the span of ages the school is registered to admit; the routes children take to the gate, and how independently they travel, follow from it. The intake is recorded as mixed. Its religious character is Roman Catholic. At the last school census 339 pupils were on roll, and 4.2 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 M45 8PT. Its grid reference is easting 380770, northing 406980, which is latitude 53.5591 and longitude -2.2918. 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.
St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy sits in the Bury local authority area, which has 92 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 Bury.
The nearest schools in the register to St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy are Elms Bank (about 190 metres away), All Saints Church of England Primary School, Stand (about 410 metres away), Sunny Bank Primary School (about 530 metres away), Unsworth Primary School (about 730 metres away) and Ribble Drive Community Primary School (1.0 km 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.