FOI request (FOIR-699738154)

Physical assaults by pupils in Pupil Referral Units

Requested Wed 26 March 2025
Responded Fri 28 March 2025

Please could you provide the following information:

1. How many physical assaults on teachers by pupils attending pupil referral units occurred in the academic year 2022/2023?

2. How many physical assaults on teachers by pupils attending pupil referral units occurred in the academic year 2023/2024?

3. How many physical assaults on teachers by pupils attending pupil referral units have occurred in the academic year 2024/2025 so far?

4. In 2023/2024, of the pupils known to have physically assaulted a teacher at a pupil referral unit, how many of them are known to have attacked a teacher in a mainstream school?

5. In 2023/2024, of the pupils known to have physically assaulted a teacher at a pupil referral unit, please list separately how many of them were excluded as a result of physically assaulting a member of staff at their original mainstream school?

6. In 2023/2024, of the pupils known to have physically assaulted a teacher at a pupil referral unit, please list separately how many were expelled as a result of physically assaulting a member of staff at their original mainstream school?

7. In 2024/2025 so far, of the pupils known to have physically assaulted a teacher at a pupil referral unit, please list separately how many of them were excluded as a result of physically assaulting a member of staff at their original mainstream school?

8. In 2024/2025 so far, of the pupils known to have physically assaulted a teacher at a pupil referral unit, please list separately how many were expelled as a result of physically assaulting a member of staff at their original mainstream school?

Response

Information not held.

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