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Didcot Sixth Form College

  • Sixth form centres
  • Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership

Evidence of the local risks around this sixth form 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 Oxfordshire, the police and the roads record around the campus and the journeys its students make. It describes the area. It never rates the sixth form college, its staff or its students.

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

Across Oxfordshire, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, gangs, going missing, trafficking, sexual abuse by another child and physical abuse by another child in a higher share of assessments than across England.

See the figures behind it

  • Domestic abuse at home 35.9% of children's social care assessments across Oxfordshire 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 sixth form 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.

Where Didcot Sixth Form College teaches

Schools and colleges with their own register entries

Schools or colleges in their own right, each with its own entry in the register, its own page and its own report.

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Oxfordshire

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

Oxfordshire England

  • Physical abuse by another child 6.4% against 3%
  • Child criminal exploitation 6.4% against 3.2%
  • Going missing 6.4% against 3.3%
  • Child sexual exploitation 3.6% against 2.4%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 3.6% against 2.5%
  • Gangs 2.7% against 1.7%
  • Trafficking 0.9% against 0.4%

This describes what social workers record for children across the whole authority, never this sixth form 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

Didcot Sixth Form College 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 Oxfordshire, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, gangs, going missing, trafficking, sexual abuse by another child and physical abuse by another child 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 the sixth form

    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 governing body 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 Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership.

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

The register entry
Unique reference number
132916
Type
Sixth form centres
Type group
Colleges
Status
Open
Phase
Not applicable
Age range
16 to 19
Gender
Mixed
UK provider reference number
10029084
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026

Local authority of the registered site: Oxfordshire.

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