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I am requesting data on knife-related incidents in educational settings that were reported to or recorded by your local authority. For the purposes of this request, relevant settings include state-funded primary schools, state-funded secondary schools, special schools, sixth form colleges, further education colleges, and others.
I recognise that your authority may hold this information via several routes, including safeguarding referrals from settings, Youth Justice Service notifications, and direct reports to the LA's designated safeguarding officer. Please include data from all such routes where available and note the source in your response.
I am requesting this data for calendar years 2021 to 2025 inclusive, plus 2026 year to date where available.

1. I would like to know the total number of knife-related incidents reported to or recorded by your authority, broken down by calendar year and by type of incident, using the following categories where possible: possession of a knife or bladed article with no injury or threat; a threat made with a knife or bladed article; an assault with a knife or bladed article resulting in no injury; an assault resulting in injury; an assault resulting in serious injury; any other knife-related incident; and type of incident not recorded.

2. I would also like, where your authority records or can identify the type of setting at which each incident occurred, a breakdown by setting type: state-funded primary schools, state-funded secondary schools, special schools, sixth form colleges, further education colleges, and setting type unknown or not recorded.

3. I would additionally like to know the exclusion outcome for the pupil or pupils involved in each incident, broken down as follows: fixed-term suspension (with number of days where available); permanent exclusion; no exclusion with a managed move to another setting; no exclusion with another intervention (please specify where possible); no exclusion recorded; and outcome not known to the local authority. Where a single incident resulted in multiple pupils being excluded, please count each pupil separately.

4. Finally, to understand whether incidents are concentrated in a small number of settings or spread more broadly, I would like an anonymous frequency distribution showing how many settings recorded 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 or more incidents over the full period covered by this request (with 5 or more further broken down into 5–9, 10–19, and 20+ where possible). I am not requesting the names or identities of individual settings.

If data for any calendar year is not held in a readily retrievable format, please provide the closest available approximation and note the difference. If your authority does not hold centralised records of knife incidents in educational settings, please state this clearly in your response.

5. Please also indicate how many settings in your local authority area are academies, free schools or independent providers not subject to maintained reporting requirements, as this will help understand the coverage of your data.

Wokingham Borough Council does not collect this data.