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The Northern College of Art

  • Further education
  • South Tees Safeguarding Children Partnership

Evidence of the local risks around this college, ready for your safeguarding 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 Middlesbrough, the police and the roads record around the campus and the journeys its students make. It describes the area. It never rates the college, its staff or its students.

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

Across Middlesbrough, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, gangs and trafficking in a higher share of assessments than across England.

See the figures behind it

  • Domestic abuse at home 33.4% of children's social care assessments across Middlesbrough 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 campus.
Sources and method

These describe the surroundings, never the site. Children's services: Department for Education, Children in need, reporting year 2025.

The Department for Education register does not give this college'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.

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Middlesbrough

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

Middlesbrough England

  • Gangs 2.9% against 1.7%
  • Child criminal exploitation 4.3% against 3.2%
  • Trafficking 0.7% against 0.4%
  • Going missing 3.4% against 3.3%
  • Physical abuse by another child 2.4% against 3%
  • Child sexual exploitation 1.7% against 2.4%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 0.8% against 2.5%

This describes what social workers record for children across the whole authority, never this college or its students, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm.

What the report contains

Written for the designated safeguarding lead, to Keeping children safe in education and Ofsted's further education and skills inspection toolkit, for students under eighteen, with the recorded picture from our exclusive partner, UK Crime Statistics.

Your report, chapter by chapter

The Northern College of Art ยท safeguarding context report 2026

What it writes for you

  • Safeguarding policy in 3 places
  • Staff training in 2 places
  • Inspector's questions in 2 places
  • Staff briefing in 1 place
  • Context statement in 1 place
  • Governors' report in 2 places
  • Travel safety in 1 place

Quoted lines are already in the public record for this site; the rest is added when you order.

  1. Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH)

    What social workers across the authority record at assessment, beside England, and what it means for the policy and staff training.

    Across Middlesbrough, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, gangs and trafficking in a higher share of assessments than across England.

    Feeds
    • Safeguarding policy
    • Staff training

  2. The recorded picture around the campus

    Police-recorded incidents within 500 metres and a kilometre, from UK Crime Statistics, described as the streets students use rather than as a score.

    Added when you order: UK Crime Statistics' analysis of the area around the site.

    Feeds
    • Safeguarding policy

  3. Exploitation indicators

    UK Crime Statistics' county lines indicator for the mile around the campus, with the drug, weapons and anti-social behaviour records it read; the places where violence, drugs and weapons offences concentrate; and the bus stations and interchanges where crime was recorded. Each is a prompt for vigilance, with what a designated safeguarding lead can and cannot read into it.

    Added when you order: UK Crime Statistics' analysis of the area around the site.

    Feeds
    • Staff training
    • Inspector's questions

  4. Getting to college

    The stations, bus stops and interchanges students pass through, with the streets that recur in the record around them.

    Feeds
    • Staff briefing

  5. The area around the campus

    The deprivation of the place students come into each day.

    Feeds
    • Context statement
    • Governors' report

  6. Roads

    Collisions around the campus involving people aged sixteen to nineteen, in the hours students travel.

    Feeds
    • Travel safety

Then the policy paragraph, a paragraph for the corporation board and the inspector's questions, ready to paste, answered from the findings above.

  • Safeguarding policy
  • Governors' report
  • Inspector's questions

Read the sample

Local safeguarding arrangements

The campus is covered by South Tees Safeguarding Children Partnership, shared with Redcar and Cleveland.

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

The register entry
Unique reference number
152679
Type
Further education
Type group
Colleges
Status
Open
Phase
16 plus
Age range
16 to 99
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
UK provider reference number
10098111
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026

Local authority of the registered site: Middlesbrough.

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