Nursery page
Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town: safeguarding context
The safeguarding context around Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town: what the public record says about the streets, roads and places around the nursery and on the way families arrive, what the authority's own figures say, and what that means for the safeguarding policy and the risk assessment. This page describes the surroundings. It never rates the setting, its staff or its children.
Order the report for Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town
£149 per setting for 12 months, the same for every nursery, pre-school or club on an order. Paid by card. We email you when it is ready, usually within a few hours of payment. What's included.
Order for Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town
What children's services record across Hertfordshire
Across Hertfordshire, children's social care recorded a parent or carer's mental health; domestic abuse, a parent or carer as victim; drug misuse by a parent or carer; alcohol misuse by a parent or carer; neglect; and a parent or carer's learning disability in a higher share of assessments than across England.
This describes what social workers record for the whole authority, never this setting or its children, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm. The report sets out every factor beside the national figure and what it means for the policy and staff training.
The area around Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town
What the published data says about the places outings reach and families arrive by, the neighbourhood around the nursery, and the roads alongside. These figures describe the surroundings; none of them is a measure of the setting.
16 parks, play spaces and playing fields lie within a kilometre of the nursery. No station or bus interchange lies within a kilometre. 14 bus stops lie within 500 metres. These are the places outings reach and the stops families arrive by; the report names them for the risk assessment.
The small area the nursery stands in is in decile 7 of the English Indices of Deprivation, in the less deprived half of small areas in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in decile 6. The figure describes the neighbourhood, never a family or a child.
Between 2021 and 2025 the police recorded 28 injury collisions within 500 metres of the nursery. 6 collisions involved someone killed or seriously injured; there were 8 pedestrian casualties and 3 cyclist casualties, and 8 of the collisions fell in weekday drop-off and collection hours.
The report turns each of these into the paragraph the safeguarding policy needs, names the roads that carry the collisions and the places the risk assessment should cover, adds the recorded picture from UK Crime Statistics and prints the limits of every figure.
Ofsted publishes the setting's postcode, not its coordinates, so distances are measured from the centre of the postcode, which can sit a street or two from the door.
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.
What the report for Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town contains
An annual report, written for the manager and the practitioner who takes lead responsibility for safeguarding in a registered early years setting, that reads the public record for the area around the nursery and says what it means in the language of the early years foundation stage framework and Ofsted's early years inspection toolkit. Each chapter ends with what it means for the safeguarding policy and the risk assessment; the report closes with the paragraphs for the policy, the self-evaluation and the owner or committee, and the inspector's questions answered.
- What children's services record. Children in need and protection plans across the authority, and the factors social workers record inside the home: a parent's mental health, domestic abuse, substance misuse and neglect, beside England.
- Young children's health, and early education and disadvantage. The local area data Ofsted reviews before an inspection, for the authority the nursery sits in.
- The recorded picture around the setting. Police-recorded incidents at map points nearby, from UK Crime Statistics, described as the streets families cross rather than as a score.
- Places and outings. Parks, play spaces and stops nearby, drawn from the data for the risk assessment.
- Local safeguarding arrangements. The partnership, the report-a-concern page, the designated officer's route for allegations against staff, and the family hubs.
- Also around the setting: roads. Collisions in drop-off and collection hours, printed with their limits.
One order buys the report, the staff briefing and slides, the evidence pack and the dashboard for the year for Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town.
Local safeguarding arrangements
Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town is covered by Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership.
- Its procedures, guidance and training: https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/childrens-social-care/child-protection/hertfordshire-safeguarding-children-partnership/hscp.aspx
- To report a concern about a child: http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/healthsoc/childfam/childprotection/
- An allegation against someone who works with children (the designated officer): https://hertfordshirescp.trixonline.co.uk/chapter/managing-allegations-against-people-who-work-with-children-and-young-people
- Family hubs: https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/schools-and-education/childcare-and-advice-for-parents/parents-and-family-support/family-hubs.aspx
If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 27 September 2026.
The register entry
- Kind of provision
- Nursery
- Registers
- Early Years Register; Childcare Register, compulsory part; Childcare Register, voluntary part
- Registered places
- 36
- Registered since
- 19 January 2022
- Postcode
- SG1 3QA
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Ofsted number
- 2667288
- Registered person
- Priory Childcare Ltd
Other nurseries, pre-schools and clubs: in Hertfordshire. Local authority: Hertfordshire (589 open schools and colleges).
Register facts from Ofsted's childcare providers and inspections management information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This page carries no inspection outcome.