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Borough Road Nursery School

  • Nursery
  • Ages 2 to 5
  • 109 pupils
  • DL1 1SG
  • Darlington Safeguarding 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 Darlington, 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 Darlington

Across Darlington, children's social care recorded child sexual exploitation, gangs, sexual abuse by another child and physical abuse by another child 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 60 9 children injured, 7 in drop-off and collection hours, 24 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 36.7% of children's social care assessments across Darlington 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 Darlington

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

Darlington England

  • Physical abuse by another child 7.1% against 3%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 3.9% against 2.5%
  • Gangs 2.4% against 1.7%
  • Child sexual exploitation 2.7% against 2.4%
  • Trafficking 0.6% against 0.4%
  • Going missing 2.8% against 3.3%
  • Child criminal exploitation 0% against 3.2%

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 Darlington Safeguarding 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
113982
Type
Local authority nursery school
Type group
Local authority maintained schools
Status
Open
Phase
Nursery
Age range
2 to 5
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Does not apply
Pupils on roll
109
Free school meals
0 percent
Federation
Darlington Nursery Schools
Postcode
DL1 1SG
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026
Website
https://www.darlingtonnurseryschools.org.uk/

Local authority: Darlington (48 open schools and colleges).

About this school's place in the register

Borough Road Nursery School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 113982. 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: Darlington 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 2 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 109 pupils were on roll, and 0 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 DL1 1SG. Its grid reference is easting 429365, northing 514575, which is latitude 54.5256 and longitude -1.5478. 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.

Borough Road Nursery School sits in the Darlington local authority area, which has 48 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 Darlington.

The nearest schools in the register to Borough Road Nursery School are Darlington College (about 640 metres away), Corporation Road Community Primary School (about 900 metres away), The Rydal Academy (about 990 metres away), St Aidan's Church of England Academy (about 990 metres away) and George Dent Nursery 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.