FOI Request - Incidents of Violence and Aggression Towards Teachers

Request 101003757764

1.  Can you please supply me with the number of recorded incidents of a) physical violence, b) physical aggression, and c) verbal abuse towards recorded during the 2012/2013 school year, and the same data for the 2022/2023 school year towards (i) teachers and classroom assistants and (ii) other school staff?

2.  If possible, could you also provide information on how many individual pupils/students were involved in the total number of incidents?

3.  Is it also possible for you to tell us your policy for sanctioning a pupil for each of the above behaviours? Or what the approach is for dealing with a pupil when such behaviour is presented?