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William Edwards School

  • Secondary
  • Ages 11 to 16
  • 984 pupils
  • RM16 3NJ
  • Thurrock Local 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 Thurrock, 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.

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

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

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KCSIEFor schools and colleges

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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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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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  • Road collisions within 500 m 4 no children injured, none in drop-off and pick-up hours, no one killed or seriously injured, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 5 1 is the most deprived tenth, 10 the least
  • Domestic abuse at home 21.9% of children's social care assessments across Thurrock 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 Thurrock

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

Thurrock England

  • Physical abuse by another child 4% against 3%
  • Child criminal exploitation 3.9% against 3.2%
  • Gangs 2.2% against 1.7%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 2.9% against 2.5%
  • Trafficking 0.4% against 0.4%
  • Going missing 3.2% against 3.3%
  • Child sexual exploitation 1.9% against 2.4%

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 Thurrock Local Safeguarding Children Partnership.

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

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The register entry
Unique reference number
137214
Type
Academy converter
Type group
Academies
Status
Open
Phase
Secondary
Age range
11 to 16
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Pupils on roll
984
Free school meals
22.4 percent
Trust
South West Essex Community Education Trust Limited
UK provider reference number
10034834
Postcode
RM16 3NJ
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026
Website
http://williamedwards.org.uk/

Local authority: Thurrock (58 open schools and colleges). Trust: South West Essex Community Education Trust Limited.

About this school's place in the register

William Edwards School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 137214. Its type in the register is "Academy converter", in the group the Department calls "Academies". It is part of SOUTH WEST ESSEX COMMUNITY EDUCATION TRUST LIMITED, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10034834. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 25 September 2026.

Its phase of education is secondary. The statutory age range is 11 to 16, 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 984 pupils were on roll, and 22.4 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 RM16 3NJ. Its grid reference is easting 562008, northing 180873, which is latitude 51.5036 and longitude 0.3328. 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.

William Edwards School sits in the Thurrock local authority area, which has 58 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 Thurrock.

The nearest schools in the register to William Edwards School are Stifford Clays Primary School (about 590 metres away), Deneholm Primary School (1.1 km away), The Hathaway Academy (1.6 km away), Orsett Heath Academy (1.6 km away) and Tudor Court Primary School (1.8 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.