2024 27826 Bladed Articles on School Premises

REQUEST

Q1 What is the number of incidents of pupils aged 18 and under found in possession of a bladed article on school premises (nursery, primary and secondary schools) during the following full academic years?
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024

Q2 We request that the above information should be broken down by:
a.
month of incident?
b.
age of pupil?
c.
type of bladed article (e.g knife)?
d.
if bladed article was used to harm anyone else (e.g other than self-harm), how many people were injured?
e.
police response to the incident (e.g arrest, investigation etc)?

RESPONSE