Knives in Schools

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Town Clerk's Service
Hull City Council
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Dear Mr Buckwell

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request - 000563/19

With regard to your Freedom of Information request received on 13/03/2019,
please find our response below. 

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?

The majority of Hull schools are now academies and do not retain our
service for their Health & Safety provision.

At present we have 2 primary schools, 1 nursery and 2 special schools
whose incident data we hold.  All senior schools are academies and have
not taken up our H&S provision.

I have looked at the maintained schools data we hold and there were no
incidents involving knives or offensive weapons for the timeframe stated.

There were 2 incidents at one of our special schools where the police were
notified, one in 2017 and one in 2018.

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