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Outwood Academy City Fields: safeguarding context
The safeguarding context around Outwood Academy City Fields: 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
- 136394
- Type
- Academy converter
- Type group
- Academies
- Status
- Open
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Pupils on roll
- 928
- Free school meals
- 38.8 percent
- Trust
- OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST
- UK provider reference number
- 10032363
- Postcode
- WF1 4SF
- Country
- England
- Register last checked
- 23 September 2026
Local authority: Wakefield (157 open schools). Trust: OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST.
About this school's place in the register
Outwood Academy City Fields is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 136394. The register records it as a academy converter, in the group the Department calls academies. It is part of OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10032363. The register was last checked on 23 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 928 pupils were on roll, and 38.8 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 WF1 4SF. Its grid reference is easting 434698, northing 421459, which is latitude 53.6884 and longitude -1.4761. 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.
Outwood Academy City Fields sits in the Wakefield local authority area, which has 157 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 Wakefield.
The nearest schools in the register to Outwood Academy City Fields are Outwood Primary Academy Park Hill (about 350 metres away), Ivy Lane School (about 530 metres away), Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill (about 750 metres away), Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) School (about 910 metres away) and St Austin's Catholic Primary School (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 Outwood Academy City Fields 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 Outwood Academy City Fields: the trend by month, every category, the streets that recur and the comparison with Wakefield 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.