Safeguarding context · School · Cardiff

St Francis V.A. Primary School

CF5 4JL
Cardiff and Vale Safeguarding Board

Evidence of the local risks around this school, ready for your child protection policy, your staff and your inspector.

Written to Keeping learners safe, the report brings together what children's services across Cardiff, 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.

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

Across Cardiff, children's services recorded 128 children where child exploitation was a factor in 2024-25 (April 2024 to March 2025, the latest year published), 17.4 per 10,000 children, lower than across Wales (26.1).

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The safeguarding context report

Why it matters

Staff must spot children at risk of harm wherever it happens, not only at school. This gives you the local evidence to do it.

“All staff have a responsibility to provide a safe environment and to identify children who are suffering, or are at risk of suffering, abuse, neglect or harm irrespective of where this happens (online or offline, on or off the education setting premises)”

Keeping learners safe, paragraph 3.2

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 Keeping learners safe, paragraph 3.2
The staff briefing One page and six slides on what the area means for your staff. For the yearly staff safeguarding update Keeping learners safe
The governors' paragraph Ready for the annual safeguarding report, with the inspector's questions answered. For governors' oversight and inspection Estyn

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Road collisions within 500 m 12 fewer than 3 children injured, fewer than 3 in drop-off and pick-up hours, 4 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
Child protection register 50.8 children in every 10,000 on the child protection register across Cardiff, 2024-25 Wales: 44.9
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: Welsh Government, children's safeguarding measures by local authority, 2024-25; rates per 10,000 children aged under 18 from the ONS mid-2025 population estimates.

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Cardiff

This describes what children's services record for the whole authority, never this school or its pupils, and a higher rate can reflect better identification and recording as easily as more harm.

Local safeguarding arrangements

The school is covered by Cardiff and Vale Safeguarding Board, shared with Vale of Glamorgan.

Report a concern about a childcardiffandvalersb.co.uk
The partnership's procedures, guidance and trainingcardiffandvalersb.co.uk

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

Nearest schools

Windsor Clive Primary School about 260 metres · Cardiff
Hywel Dda Primary School about 600 metres · Cardiff
Ely Presbyterian Church School about 740 metres · Cardiff
Pencaerau Primary school about 790 metres · Cardiff
Herbert Thompson Primary 1.2 km · Cardiff

The register entry

Unique reference number: 402079
Type: Welsh establishment
Type group: Welsh schools
Status: Open
Phase: Not applicable
Gender: Not applicable
Postcode: CF5 4JL
Country: Wales
Register last checked: 7 November 2026

Local authority: Cardiff (146 open schools and colleges).

About this school's place in the register

St Francis V.A. Primary School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 402079. Its type in the register is "Welsh establishment", in the group the Department calls "Welsh schools". The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 25 September 2026.

The intake is recorded as not applicable.

The school is in Wales, at postcode CF5 4JL. Its grid reference is easting 312892, northing 176230, which is latitude 51.4783 and longitude -3.2557. 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 Francis V.A. Primary School sits in the Cardiff local authority area, which has 146 open establishments in the register. The authority sits within a regional safeguarding board, which publishes the local arrangements under the Wales Safeguarding Procedures that a school's child protection policy refers to, so the same authority context applies to every school in Cardiff.

The nearest schools in the register to St Francis V.A. Primary School are Windsor Clive Primary School (about 260 metres away), Hywel Dda Primary School (about 600 metres away), Ely Presbyterian Church School (about 740 metres away), Pencaerau Primary school (about 790 metres away) and Herbert Thompson Primary (1.2 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.