Safeguarding context · School · Rotherham
Abbey School
- Ages 5 to 19
- 238 pupils
- S61 2RA
- Rotherham 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 Rotherham, 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.
£149 for 12 months
First finding · Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Rotherham
Across Rotherham, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, gangs and going missing in a higher share of assessments than across England.
KCSIEFor schools and colleges
The safeguarding context report
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
- 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
- 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
- The governors' paragraph Ready for the annual safeguarding report, with the inspector's questions answered. For governors' oversight and inspection Ofsted's school inspection toolkit
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The area in figures
- Road collisions within 500 m 6 no children injured, fewer than 3 in drop-off and pick-up hours, fewer than 3 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 41.2% of children's social care assessments across Rotherham 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 Rotherham
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 Rotherham Safeguarding Children Partnership.
- Report a concern about a childrotherham.gov.uk
- The partnership's procedures, guidance and trainingrscp.org.uk
If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 1 November 2026.
Nearest schools
The register entry
- Unique reference number
- 142768
- Type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Type group
- Academies
- Status
- Open
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Age range
- 5 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Pupils on roll
- 238
- Free school meals
- 54.6 percent
- Trust
- Nexus Multi Academy Trust
- UK provider reference number
- 10056212
- Postcode
- S61 2RA
- Country
- England
- Register last checked
- 7 November 2026
- Website
- http://www.abbeyschool.org
Local authority: Rotherham (128 open schools and colleges). Trust: Nexus Multi Academy Trust.
About this school's place in the register
Abbey School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 142768. Its type in the register is "Academy special sponsor led", in the group the Department calls "Academies". It is part of NEXUS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10056212. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 25 September 2026.
The statutory age range is 5 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 238 pupils were on roll, and 54.6 percent of them were eligible for free school meals, a register figure the report never uses to describe pupils. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.
The school is in England, at postcode S61 2RA. Its grid reference is easting 439547, northing 393444, which is latitude 53.4363 and longitude -1.4062. 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.
Abbey School sits in the Rotherham local authority area, which has 128 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 Rotherham.
The nearest schools in the register to Abbey School are Winterhill School (about 580 metres away), St Bede's Catholic Primary School (about 660 metres away), Meadow View Primary School (about 880 metres away), Blackburn Primary School (1.0 km away) and Redscope Primary School (1.1 km 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.