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Alchemy School

  • Ages 11 to 19
  • 58 pupils
  • ME7 4LT
  • Medway 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 Medway, 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 Medway

Across Medway, no harm outside the home stood out against England in what children's social care recorded at assessment.

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KCSIEFor schools and colleges

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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 independent school inspection toolkit

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  • Road collisions within 500 m 53 5 children injured, 14 in drop-off and pick-up hours, 10 killed or seriously injured, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 2 1 is the most deprived tenth, 10 the least
  • Domestic abuse at home 28.8% of children's social care assessments across Medway 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 Medway

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

Medway England

  • Physical abuse by another child 2.9% against 3%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 1.6% against 2.5%
  • Gangs 0.7% against 1.7%
  • Child criminal exploitation 1.8% against 3.2%
  • Child sexual exploitation 1% against 2.4%
  • Going missing 1.7% against 3.3%

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 Medway 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
146736
Type
Other independent special school
Type group
Special schools
Status
Open
Phase
Not applicable
Age range
11 to 19
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Pupils on roll
58
UK provider reference number
10085691
Postcode
ME7 4LT
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026
Website
http://www.alchemyschools.co.uk

Local authority: Medway (117 open schools and colleges).

About this school's place in the register

Alchemy School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 146736. Its type in the register is "Other independent special school", in the group the Department calls "Special schools". Its UK provider reference number is 10085691. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 2 November 2026.

The statutory age range is 11 to 19, 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. At the last school census 58 pupils were on roll. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.

The school is in England, at postcode ME7 4LT. Its grid reference is easting 577604, northing 167562, which is latitude 51.3793 and longitude 0.5507. 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.

Alchemy School sits in the Medway local authority area, which has 117 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 Medway.

The nearest schools in the register to Alchemy School are Byron Primary School (about 260 metres away), Napier Community Primary and Nursery Academy (about 280 metres away), Hospital and Medical Tuition Service (about 600 metres away), Barnsole Primary School (about 600 metres away) and Chatham Grammar (about 640 metres 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.