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Darwin School

  • Ages 8 to 18
  • 5 pupils
  • Shropshire Safeguarding Community 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 Shropshire, 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.

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

Across Shropshire, 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

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

  • Domestic abuse at home 46.1% of children's social care assessments across Shropshire 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.
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. Children's services: Department for Education, Children in need, reporting year 2025.

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Shropshire

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

Shropshire England

  • Child criminal exploitation 6.6% against 3.2%
  • Going missing 6.4% against 3.3%
  • Child sexual exploitation 5.2% against 2.4%
  • Physical abuse by another child 5.1% against 3%
  • Trafficking 1.8% against 0.4%
  • Gangs 2.8% against 1.7%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 3.3% against 2.5%

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 Shropshire Safeguarding Community Partnership.

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

The register entry
Unique reference number
131171
Type
Other independent special school
Type group
Special schools
Status
Open
Phase
Not applicable
Age range
8 to 18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Pupils on roll
5
UK provider reference number
10017878
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026
Website
http://www.cambiangroup.com/cambiangroup.aspx

Local authority: Shropshire (187 open schools and colleges).

About this school's place in the register

Darwin School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 131171. Its type in the register is "Other independent special school", in the group the Department calls "Special schools". Its UK provider reference number is 10017878. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 7 November 2026.

The statutory age range is 8 to 18, 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 5 pupils were on roll. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.

The school is in England. The register does not give this establishment's own site.

Darwin School sits in the Shropshire local authority area, which has 187 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 Shropshire.

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