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Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School: safeguarding context
The safeguarding context around Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School: what the public record says about the streets, routes and roads children use to reach it, and what that means for the school's policy. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the school.
The register entry
- Unique reference number
- 107707
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Type group
- Local authority maintained schools
- Status
- Open
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Pupils on roll
- 544
- Free school meals
- 29.4 percent
- UK provider reference number
- 10071374
- Postcode
- WF12 9PD
- Country
- England
- Register last checked
- 23 September 2026
Local authority: Kirklees (202 open schools).
About this school's place in the register
Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 107707. The register records it as a voluntary controlled school, in the group the Department calls local authority maintained schools. Its UK provider reference number is 10071374. The register was last checked on 23 September 2026.
Its phase of education is primary. The statutory age range is 7 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 Church of England. At the last school census 544 pupils were on roll, and 29.4 percent of them were eligible for free school meals, a figure the report uses only to describe the catchment, never the school. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.
The school is in England, at postcode WF12 9PD. Its grid reference is easting 424310, northing 420187, which is latitude 53.6776 and longitude -1.6335. That point is the centre of everything the safeguarding context report measures: the streets within a short walk, the routes to the nearest transport and shops, the roads at the gate, and the neighbourhood statistics that surround it.
Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School sits in the Kirklees local authority area, which has 202 open establishments in the register. The local authority is the body that publishes the local safeguarding partnership arrangements, the threshold document and the early help offer that a school's child protection policy refers to, so the same authority context applies to every school in Kirklees.
The nearest schools in the register to Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School are Thornhill Lees Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant and Nursery School (about 270 metres away), Pentland Infant and Nursery School (about 430 metres away), Rida Boys High School (about 660 metres away), Rida Girls High School (about 710 metres away) and Madni Academy (about 760 metres away). Distances are straight lines between grid references, not walking routes. Several schools within walking distance of each other share the same streets, crossings, parks and shops, so the context described for one usually applies to its neighbours too.
What the report for Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School contains
An annual report, written for the Designated Safeguarding Lead, that reads the public record for the environment around this school and says what it means in the language of Keeping Children Safe in Education and contextual safeguarding. Each chapter is mapped to the policy paragraph, the governors' annual report or the inspection question it evidences. The recorded picture at the gate comes from UK Crime Statistics, our sister service; the rest is evidence a crime map does not carry.
- The recorded picture at the gate. Police-recorded incidents within a short walk, from UK Crime Statistics, described as the streets a child crosses rather than as a score, and turned into the context paragraph the policy asks for.
- Exploitation indicators. The public signals of criminal and sexual exploitation in the area, and what a DSL can and cannot read into them.
- Places and routes where risk sits. Parks, shops, transport stops and underpasses on the way in, drawn from the data rather than from reputation.
- Road danger at the gate. Collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists on the surrounding roads, with what a School Street request needs.
- Air quality and catchment deprivation. The neighbourhood statistics that shape the context, printed with their limits.
- Policy paragraph, governor paragraph and inspector questions. Ready to paste, answered from the findings above.
With the report comes the insight dashboard for Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School: the trend by month, every category, the streets that recur and the comparison with Kirklees and the national picture, live for the year.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.