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Journeys Academy

  • Ages 4 to 11
  • Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire, 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.

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

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

See the figures behind it

The Department for Education register does not give this establishment's own site, so nothing can be measured around it and no report can be ordered for it. The local authority's figures and arrangements below still apply.

  • Domestic abuse at home 38.6% of children's social care assessments across Hertfordshire 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.
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. Children's services: Department for Education, Children in need, reporting year 2025.

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Hertfordshire

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

Hertfordshire England

  • Going missing 4.9% against 3.3%
  • Child sexual exploitation 3.5% against 2.4%
  • Gangs 2.2% against 1.7%
  • Trafficking 0.6% against 0.4%
  • Child criminal exploitation 3.3% against 3.2%
  • Physical abuse by another child 2.6% against 3%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 1.9% 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 Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership.

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

The register entry
Unique reference number
152478
Type
Free schools special
Type group
Free Schools
Status
Open
Phase
Not applicable
Age range
4 to 11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Trust
Agora Learning Partnership
UK provider reference number
10100947
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026

Local authority: Hertfordshire (590 open schools and colleges). Trust: Agora Learning Partnership.

About this school's place in the register

Journeys Academy is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 152478. Its type in the register is "Free schools special", in the group the Department calls "Free Schools". It is part of AGORA LEARNING PARTNERSHIP, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10100947. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026.

The statutory age range is 4 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.

The school is in England. The register does not give this establishment's own site.

Journeys Academy sits in the Hertfordshire local authority area, which has 590 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 Hertfordshire.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.