Crimes in Schools
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003069/W
Version Date: 16/04/2025
The Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Searches were completed on Niche for all crimes which had a knife crime flag, a Victim Injury not being ‘None’, and filtered on ‘Weapon Used’ of ‘Knife/blade (used/threatened)’ or ‘Knife/bladed(possession)’.
The location filters used are Location Subtype ‘School’ or the following keywords in the Occ. Add. Building Name field: ‘school’, ‘academy’, ‘college’ and included only those locations where the Occ. Add. Link Classification was ‘occurrence’ to try and eliminate crimes that were just reported in a school. Lastly, I added some filters to remove false positives.
Searches were completed from 21/05/2015 as this is when Niche was introduced.
Please can I request the following pared-down request:
Number of knife crimes with injury recorded in schools in the calendar years 2014-2024 (separately).
Please provide the data by searching for the location of ‘school’ and using keyword filters.
|
Year |
Count |
|
2017 |
3 |
|
2018 |
1 |
|
2022 |
2 |
|
2023 |
1 |
|
Total |
7 |
Please also provide the outcomes for each of these crimes (e.g. charge).
|
Latest Stats Class Status |
2017 |
2018 |
2022 |
2023 |
Total |
|
10: Police - formal action not in public interest |
1 |
1 |
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16: Victim declines/withdraws support - named suspect identified |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
18: Investigation complete no suspect identified |
1 |
1 |
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21: Police - named suspect, investigation not in the public interest |
1 |
1 |
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|
Total |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
7 |