FOI Request - Racist Abuse Incidents in Schools

Request 101003717887

How many incidents of racist abuse have all schools in your council recorded (via the race and racism (bullying) category in SEEMIS and/or racist incidents) annually for the last six academic years (2017/18 to 2023/24)? Can you please break this down into primary and secondary?

Response 12-03-2025

The module only started to be used in 2018/19, so we have no data for 2017/18. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

2023/24 - Primary 16;  Secondary 30
2022/23 - Primary 6;  Secondary 27
2021/22 - Primary <5*;  Secondary 10
2020/21 - Primary 8;  Secondary 8
2019/20 - Primary <5*;  Secondary 9
2018/19 - Primary <5*;  Secondary <5*
2017/18 - No data available

* The low numbers associated with this response may result in the identification of individuals.
Therefore numbers of pupils between 1 and 5 have been redacted and marked with an asterisk
instead. This information is exempt under Section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
- personal information.