Under the FOI Act I would like to request the amount of times teaching staff employed in schools operated by the authority were a) physically assaulted and b) sexually assaulted in each of the last three years (2021, 2022 and 2023)?
In response to the above we can confirm the following:
a) Our totals have included ‘Violence – physical assault (intentional) by student’ and ‘Violence – physical assault (un-intentional)’ and so both have been included
The figures for the three years for physical assaults are:
2021 – 15
2022 – 15
2023 – 23
b) The ‘Violence – physical assault’ category that we hold does not break down to identify sexual assaults. A reading of the 53 incident descriptions given did not identify any incident where the primary reason behind the attack was of a sexual motivation or intention.
Our records also include a category for ‘Harassment – sexual’ but a search using similar criteria to that used above also identified no incidents