Question reference: S6W-12498
- Date lodged: 23 November 2022
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 6 December 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many assaults against high school teachers on school property have been recorded in each year since 2017.
Answer
Information on assaults against high school teachers on school property is not held centrally.
The biennial Attendance, Absence and Exclusions data collection gathers data on the number and reasons recorded for temporary or permanent exclusions from school. These data show that there were 779 cases of exclusion (temporary or permanent) from publicly funded schools in Scotland during 2020-21 where the reason recorded was either ‘physical assault using improvised weapon against staff’, ‘physical assault using weapon against staff’ or ‘physical assault with no weapon against staff’. This compares to 1,737 in 2018-19 and 1,960 in 2016-17.