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St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy: safeguarding context

The safeguarding context around St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy: 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
150188
Type
Academy converter
Type group
Academies
Status
Open
Phase
Primary
Age range
3 to 11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Pupils on roll
405
Free school meals
31.1 percent
Trust
EMMAUS CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST
UK provider reference number
10093478
Postcode
M43 7NA
Country
England
Register last checked
23 September 2026

About this school's place in the register

St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 150188. The register records it as a academy converter, in the group the Department calls academies. It is part of EMMAUS CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10093478. 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. Its religious character is Roman Catholic. At the last school census 405 pupils were on roll, and 31.1 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 M43 7NA. Its grid reference is easting 390350, northing 398759, which is latitude 53.4855 and longitude -2.1469. 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.

St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 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 St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy are Greenside Primary School (about 370 metres away), Moorside Primary School (about 460 metres away), St Mary's CofE Primary School (about 610 metres away), Droylsden Academy (about 760 metres away) and Manchester Road Primary Academy (1.0 km 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 St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 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 St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy: 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.