- Title or Description
- Violence Towards Teachers
- FOI Number
- 20250532
- Date Received
- 24/04/2025
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
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* Could you please provide me with the number of violent incidents towards school staff yearly from 2018 to 2024? *Can we also get a breakdown of incidents involving ASN and non-ASN children for each year?
If this information is not available to you for the years requested, please respond with the closest years that you have this information recorded. - Response
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Year Number of violent incidents towards school staff Does the young person have an existing medical condition? See Narrative below
2018 211 No 126 Yes
2019 Total - 337 386 No 131 Yes
2020 Total - 517 243 No 87 Yes
2021 Total - 330 350 No 136 Yes
2022 Total - 486 692 No 329 Yes
2023 Total - 1021 729 No 283 Yes
2024 Total - 1012 427 No 357 Yes
Total - 784
Scottish Borders Council reporting system does not determine an ASN diagnosis within the medical condition figures therefore we give notice under s17 of FOI(S)A 2002 and declare that the information is not held.
However we have provided the figure for young people with a medical condition.
