FOI Request - Racist Bullying Incidents

Request 101002771556

1. Are the following SEEMiS modules currently available to schools in your Local Authority area (e.g. activated by the Local Authority):
a) Bullying and Equalities – Yes/No
b) Racist Incidents – Yes/No

2. The date on which your Local Authority began roll-out of the revised SEEMiS Bullying and Equalities module (Month/Year) to a) primary schools b) secondary schools and c) special schools

3. Please confirm how racist bullying and racist incident data was gathered by the Local Authority over academic year 2019/20 through the two separate SEEMiS modules (Bullying and Equalities module and Racist Incidents module):
a) The Local Authority collated racist bullying data from SEEMiS: Yes/No
b) The Local Authority required individual schools to submit SEEMiS data on racist bullying: Yes/No
c) The Local Authority collated racist incident data from SEEMiS: Yes/No
d) The Local Authority required individual schools to submit SEEMiS data on racist incidents: Yes/No
e) The Local Authority gathered only overall bullying data, not disaggregated by reason: Yes/No
f) The Local Authority did not gather any bullying data at this time: Yes/No
g) The Local Authority did not gather any racist incident data at this time: Yes/No
4. If any other mechanisms are used to gather either a) racist bullying or b) racist incident data at Local Authority level, please tell us about this.

5. Please provide the number of schools in your Local Authority Area in the academic year 2019-2020, provided separately for each of the following categories:
a) Primary schools
b) Secondary schools
c) Special schools

6. For the academic year 2019/20, please give the number of a) primary schools, b) secondary schools and c) special schools from which the Local Authority has obtained or received the following returns:
i) Data showing one or more instances of bullying overall (any reason) or racist incidents collected through SEEMiS
ii) Data showing zero instances of bullying overall (any reason) or racist incidents collected through SEEMiS (i.e. nil returns)
iii) No returns / no data obtained or received on bullying overall (any reason) or racist incidents

7. For the academic year 2019/20, please give the number of a) primary schools, b) secondary schools and c) special schools for which the Local Authority holds each type of data:
i) Racist bullying data collected through the SEEMiS Bullying and Equalities Module
ii) Other prejudice-based bullying data (any reason apart from racism) collected through the SEEMiS Bullying and Equalities Module
iii) Bullying data (overall figures) collected through the SEEMiS Bullying and Equalities Module
iv) Racist incident data collected through the SEEMiS Racist Incidents module
v) Racist bullying data collected in another way
f) Racist incident data collected in another way

In the event that your information system cannot provide academic year data, please state what the relevant annual timeframe is and provide the information in that timeframe.

Response 10-05-2021

1. a)    Yes
b)   No   

2.   Schools were given the opportunity to start using it from February 2019.  A number of schools started using it straight away.  By August 2019 it was mandatory for schools in Moray to record incidents of bullying in the Bullying and Equalities module.

3.  a)  Yes
b)  Yes, via the Bullying and Equalities Module
c)  Yes, via the Bullying and Equalities Module
d)  Yes, via the Bullying and Equalities Module
e)  No
f)   No
g)  No
4.   No other mechanisms are used.

5.  a)  14
b)   8
c)   0.  Moray is an inclusive authority and does not have special schools.

6.  a) 14  b) 8 c) N/A
a) 39  b)0   c) N/A
a) 39  b)0   c) N/A

7. 
i) a) 3  b) 4 schools, 10 incidents  c)N/A   TOTAL: 13
ii)   a) 31  b) 139 c)N/A  
iii)  a) 34  b) 149      TOTAL: 183
iv)  NIL
v)  No
f)  No