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 Mr Buckwell
Freedom of Information / Environmental Information Regulations Request:
LBH/8508719
I acknowledge your request for information received on 13 March 2019.
This information request will be dealt with in accordance with the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations and we
will send the response by 10 April 2019
Yours sincerely,
Feedback and Information Governance
Shared Service Centre | Central Team
Haringey Council
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Dear Mr Buckwell,
Re: Freedom of Information Act Request ref: LBH/8508719
Thank you for your request for information received on 13 March 2019, in
which you asked for the following:
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.
My response is as follows:
The local authority would not hold this information, it would be held
individually by each school.
If you are unhappy with how we have responded to your request you can ask
us to conduct an Internal Review. If so, please contact the [1]Feedback
and Information Team. (Please note you should do so within two months of
this response.)
Yours sincerely,
Eveleen Riordan
Assistant Director, Schools and Learning
Haringey Council
7^th floor, River Park House, High Road, Wood Green, N22 8HQ
Tel: 020 8489 3607
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