FOI Request - Bullying and Prejudice Based Incidents in Schools
Request 101003854538
Scope and timeframe
Please provide the following recorded information for local-authority schools for academic years 2015/16 to 2024/25 (year-to-date), service-level totals only (no school-level):
A. Annual counts by prejudice category:
• Total recorded bullying/prejudice-based incidents, broken down by the categories you use.
• Where possible, map or report counts against the following high-level categories: racism; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity; faith/religion/belief; sex/sex-based; and other/unknown if used.
B. Victim/target (if routinely recorded at service level):
• Of the above, totals where the target was a pupil; and, if recorded, where the target was staff/other.
C. Disposals/outcomes (service-level, if routinely recorded):
• Annual totals of incidents resulting in support plan/safety plan updates, restorative intervention, or disciplinary/exclusion outcomes.
D. Coding, definitions and policy:
• The incident categories/codes and definitions currently in use and any changes over time.
• Current policy/guidance issued to schools on recording and responding to bullying/prejudice-based incidents.
Format
Please supply the data in a machine-readable format (CSV or XLSX). For datasets, fields such as academic_year, category, incidents_total, target_type (pupil/staff/other) and (where held) outcome_category would be helpful.
Disclosure control / personal data
I seek aggregate, anonymised figures only and no personal data. Where necessary, please apply standard disclosure control (e.g., suppress values <5).
Advice & assistance / cost
If you estimate this may exceed the section 12 cost limit, please advise under section 15 how I can refine it—for example, limiting to service-level totals for the high-level categories you already report.
Published information
If any of the requested information is already published (section 25), please provide the direct URL and the exact document/table location.
Information not held / exemptions
If any part of the request is not held (section 17), please state this explicitly. If you intend to withhold information, please provide a schedule of documents/fields withheld, the exemption/exception relied upon (e.g., s30/s33 FOISA or EIR 10), and the public-interest test where applicable.