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Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Shotton

  • Primary
  • Ages 3 to 11
  • 156 pupils
  • DH6 2JQ
  • Durham Safeguarding Children 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 County Durham, 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 County Durham

Across County Durham, children's social care recorded child sexual exploitation, going missing and trafficking in a higher share of assessments than across England.

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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 fewer than 3 injury collisions, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 5 1 is the most deprived tenth, 10 the least
  • Domestic abuse at home 45% of children's social care assessments across County Durham 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 County Durham

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

County Durham England

  • Going missing 4.1% against 3.3%
  • Child sexual exploitation 2.8% against 2.4%
  • Gangs 1.8% against 1.7%
  • Trafficking 0.5% against 0.4%
  • Child criminal exploitation 3.2% against 3.2%
  • Physical abuse by another child 2.5% against 3%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 1.5% against 2.5%

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 Durham 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
148788
Type
Academy converter
Type group
Academies
Status
Open
Phase
Primary
Age range
3 to 11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Pupils on roll
156
Free school meals
32.1 percent
Trust
Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust
UK provider reference number
10089245
Postcode
DH6 2JQ
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026
Website
http://www.ourladyoflourdes.durham.sch.uk/

Local authority: County Durham (279 open schools and colleges). Trust: Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust.

About this school's place in the register

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Shotton is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 148788. Its type in the register is "Academy converter", in the group the Department calls "Academies". It is part of BISHOP CHADWICK CATHOLIC EDUCATION TRUST, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10089245. 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 156 pupils were on roll, and 32.1 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 DH6 2JQ. Its grid reference is easting 438617, northing 541350, which is latitude 54.7656 and longitude -1.4013. 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.

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Shotton sits in the County Durham local authority area, which has 279 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 County Durham.

The nearest schools in the register to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Shotton are Shotton Primary School (about 800 metres away), St Godrics Catholic Primary School, Thornley (2.5 km away), Thornley Academy (2.6 km away), Ludworth Primary School (2.6 km away) and Wheatley Hill Community Primary School (2.8 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.