Knives in Schools
Dear Education Authority,
I am making a Freedom of Information request for the following information.
Can you provide answers to the following questions for each year from 2013 to the present:
How many knives or similar offensive weapons have been seized in your schools in each year from 2013 to present?
In your answer can you please provide figures for secondary schools and primary schools separately.
Can you also specify whether the knife was found to be in the possession of a boy or girl and their age, or neither (ie discarded on school premises).
How many injuries have been caused by knives or similar offensive weapons in secondary schools and primary schools in the same period. Can you specify the age of the victim and whether a pupil or a teacher, or visitor to the school.
In how many of these has the victim required hospital treatment. Can you specify the age of the victim and whether a pupil or a teacher, or visitor to the school.
How many pupils have been excluded for possession or use of a knife on school premises in each year from 2013 to present?
How many times have police been called to schools to deal with incidents involving pupil behaviour in each year from 2013 to present?
If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful of you could contact me as I understand that under the act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
Yours faithfully,
Andy Buckwell
Dear Andy Buckwell
Re: Freedom of Information Request ref 1040390.
Thank you for your email. Your request will be dealt with in line with the Freedom of Information Act and its regulations. In accordance with the Act, the Council aims to respond to all requests within 20 working days, in this instance by 10th April 2019.
If we require further information, clarification or a fee in order to fulfil your request we will contact you again. Please quote the reference number above in all future correspondence concerning this request.
Yours sincerely,
Josephine Bailey
Information Management Analyst
Information Governance Team
Cambridgeshire County Council
Email: [Cambridgeshire County Council request email]
Tel: 01223 699137
Dear Andy
Re: Freedom of Information request ref FOI_1040390
I write with reference to your request of 13^th March 2019. Unfortunately
we do not hold the requested information. Individual schools should hold
the information you are requesting. A list of schools in Cambridgeshire
can be found at the following link in case you wish to send your request
to them and have not already done so.
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