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Dixons Silver Springs Primary: safeguarding context
The safeguarding context around Dixons Silver Springs Primary: what the public record says about the streets, routes and roads children use to reach it, and what that means for the school's policy. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the school.
The register entry
- Unique reference number
- 137951
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Type group
- Academies
- Status
- Open
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Pupils on roll
- 427
- Free school meals
- 51.9 percent
- Trust
- DIXONS ACADEMIES TRUST
- UK provider reference number
- 10037061
- Postcode
- SK15 1EA
- Country
- England
- Register last checked
- 23 September 2026
- Website
- http://www.dixonssp.com
Local authority: Tameside (111 open schools). Trust: DIXONS ACADEMIES TRUST.
About this school's place in the register
Dixons Silver Springs Primary is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 137951. The register records it as a academy sponsor led, in the group the Department calls academies. It is part of DIXONS ACADEMIES TRUST, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10037061. The register was last checked on 23 September 2026.
Its phase of education is primary. The statutory age range is 3 to 11, 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 427 pupils were on roll, and 51.9 percent of them were eligible for free school meals, a figure the report uses only to describe the catchment, never the school. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.
The school is in England, at postcode SK15 1EA. Its grid reference is easting 395988, northing 399401, which is latitude 53.4913 and longitude -2.0619. That point is the centre of everything the safeguarding context report measures: the streets within a short walk, the routes to the nearest transport and shops, the roads at the gate, and the neighbourhood statistics that surround it.
Dixons Silver Springs Primary sits in the Tameside local authority area, which has 111 open establishments in the register. The local authority is the body that publishes the local safeguarding partnership arrangements, the threshold document and the early help offer that a school's child protection policy refers to, so the same authority context applies to every school in Tameside.
The nearest schools in the register to Dixons Silver Springs Primary are Works 4 U Support Services (Norman Mackie & Associates Ltd) (about 140 metres away), West Hill School (about 590 metres away), Arlies Primary School (about 660 metres away), Inspire Academy (about 790 metres away) and Ashton Sixth Form College (about 900 metres away). Distances are straight lines between grid references, not walking routes. Several schools within walking distance of each other share the same streets, crossings, parks and shops, so the context described for one usually applies to its neighbours too.
What the report for Dixons Silver Springs Primary contains
An annual report, written for the Designated Safeguarding Lead, that reads the public record for the environment around this school and says what it means in the language of Keeping Children Safe in Education and contextual safeguarding. Each chapter is mapped to the policy paragraph, the governors' annual report or the inspection question it evidences. The recorded picture at the gate comes from UK Crime Statistics, our sister service; the rest is evidence a crime map does not carry.
- The recorded picture at the gate. Police-recorded incidents within a short walk, from UK Crime Statistics, described as the streets a child crosses rather than as a score, and turned into the context paragraph the policy asks for.
- Exploitation indicators. The public signals of criminal and sexual exploitation in the area, and what a DSL can and cannot read into them.
- Places and routes where risk sits. Parks, shops, transport stops and underpasses on the way in, drawn from the data rather than from reputation.
- Road danger at the gate. Collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists on the surrounding roads, with what a School Street request needs.
- Air quality and catchment deprivation. The neighbourhood statistics that shape the context, printed with their limits.
- Policy paragraph, governor paragraph and inspector questions. Ready to paste, answered from the findings above.
With the report comes the insight dashboard for Dixons Silver Springs Primary: the trend by month, every category, the streets that recur and the comparison with Tameside and the national picture, live for the year.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.