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Windsor and Maidenhead: the safeguarding context

  • 83 schools and colleges
  • England
  • RBWM Safeguarding Partnership

Evidence of the local risks around every school and college in Windsor and Maidenhead, ready for your policy, your staff and your inspector.

What children's services, the health service and the police record across Windsor and Maidenhead, the local safeguarding arrangements, and the 83 open schools and colleges in the Department for Education register for Windsor and Maidenhead, England. Everything here describes the area. None of it rates a school or college.

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

Across Windsor and Maidenhead, no harm outside the home stood out against England in what children's social care recorded at assessment.

This describes what social workers record for the whole authority, never a school, a college or any child, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm.

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Local safeguarding arrangements

Windsor and Maidenhead is covered by RBWM Safeguarding Partnership.

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

What is recorded across Windsor and Maidenhead

Published figures for the whole authority, or the police force area it sits in, beside the national figure named in each table where one is published. Counts below three are shown as fewer than 3.

What children's services record, year to 31 March 2025, the latest year published

Children in need, child protection plans and the factors social workers identified at assessment across Windsor and Maidenhead. The whole authority, never a school, college or setting.

Measure Windsor and Maidenhead England Compared
Children in need at 31 March 238.3 per 10,000 children (828 children) 330.3 Lower
Children on child protection plans at 31 March 24.2 per 10,000 children (84 children) 40.6 Lower
Child criminal exploitation 0.5% of assessments 3.2% Not compared
Child sexual exploitation 1.6% of assessments 2.4% Lower
Gangs 1.6% of assessments 1.7% Similar
Going missing 1.4% of assessments 3.3% Lower
Trafficking not published 0.4% Not compared
Sexual abuse by another child 1.8% of assessments 2.5% Lower
Physical abuse by another child 2.7% of assessments 3% Lower
Domestic abuse, the child as victim 5% of assessments 11.3% Lower
Domestic abuse, a parent or carer as victim 22.7% of assessments 31.7% Lower
Self-harm 7% of assessments 5% Higher
The child's mental health 10.5% of assessments 17.6% Lower
Drug misuse by the child 2.2% of assessments 4.8% Lower
Alcohol misuse by the child 0.6% of assessments 2.1% Not compared
Socially unacceptable behaviour 0.7% of assessments 7% Lower
Neglect 26.5% of assessments 17.6% Higher
Emotional abuse 13.6% of assessments 19% Lower

Department for Education, Children in need, reporting year 2025.

Young people's health and youth justice

Published figures for Windsor and Maidenhead against England; higher or lower is the publisher's own significance test.

Measure Period Windsor and Maidenhead England Compared
Hospital admissions for self-harm, ages 10 to 24 2023/24 215.4 per 100,000, age-standardised 266.6 Similar
Hospital admissions for violence, including sexual violence, all ages 2022/23 - 24/25 not published 31.9 Not compared
First-time entrants to the youth justice system, ages 10 to 17 2025 58.7 per 100,000 aged 10 to 17 127.1 Lower
Hospital admissions for substance misuse, ages 15 to 24 2022/23 - 24/25 not published 39 Not compared
Hospital admissions for alcohol-specific conditions, under 18 2021/22 - 23/24 not published 22.6 Not compared
16 and 17 year olds not in education, employment or training, or not known 2025/26 5.6% of 16 and 17 year olds 5.8% Similar
Children under 16 in relative low income families 2024/25 7.7% of children under 16 19.8% Lower

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips public health profiles.

Domestic abuse, year ending March 2025, the latest year published

Police-recorded domestic abuse and MARAC cases for the Thames Valley police force area, the force area the authority sits in.

Measure Thames Valley England and Wales Compared
Domestic abuse-related incidents and crimes recorded by the police 21.7 per 1,000 people 21.8 Similar
Domestic abuse-related crimes recorded by the police 10.2 per 1,000 people 13.2 Lower
Cases discussed at multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARACs) 15.7 per 10,000 adult women 50.2 Lower

Office for National Statistics, Domestic abuse in England and Wales data tool.

Each school's or college's report sets these figures out chapter by chapter, beside the picture around its own site, and writes what they mean into the policy, the staff briefing and the report to governors, trustees or the proprietor.

Questions about safeguarding in Windsor and Maidenhead

Which safeguarding partnership covers Windsor and Maidenhead?

Windsor and Maidenhead is covered by RBWM Safeguarding Partnership. Its procedures, threshold guidance and training are published at https://rbwmsafeguardingpartnership.org.uk/.

How do I report a concern about a child in Windsor and Maidenhead?

If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Otherwise the council's page for reporting a concern about a child is https://rbwm.afcinfo.org.uk/pages/web-site-information/safeguarding. Staff in a school or college should follow their own procedure and tell the designated safeguarding lead.

What do children's services record about harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) in Windsor and Maidenhead?

Across Windsor and Maidenhead, no harm outside the home stood out against England in what children's social care recorded at assessment. These figures describe the whole authority, never any school, college or child, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm.

Schools and colleges in Windsor and Maidenhead

Each page describes the context around that school or college: the local arrangements, the places children and young people pass and gather, and the neighbourhood around each site. Open a page to order its report.

Nursery schools (3)

Primary (46)

Middle deemed secondary (4)

Secondary (10)

Other schools and colleges (20)

Colleges with a campus in Windsor and Maidenhead

College campuses in Windsor and Maidenhead, whichever authority their college is registered in. Each campus page reads the context against Windsor and Maidenhead, where the campus is.

Nurseries, pre-schools and clubs in Windsor and Maidenhead

120 registered nurseries, pre-schools and out-of-school clubs on non-domestic premises in Windsor and Maidenhead have their own pages, each describing the safeguarding context around the setting and the same authority figures as above. See every setting in Windsor and Maidenhead.

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Evidence of the local risks around your school, college, nursery or club

The public evidence about the area around your school, college, nursery or club, written into your safeguarding policy, staff briefing and board report for the year ahead. We email you when it is ready, usually within an hour of payment.

  • The report
  • The staff briefing and slides
  • The evidence pack
  • The dashboard 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.