Request 101004061054

1. I am requesting this data for calendar years 2021 to 2025 inclusive, plus 2026 year to date where available. I would like to request this data on a spreadsheet in the following format. I would like to know the total number of knife-related incidents reported to or recorded by your authority:

a) broken down by calendar year
b) and by type of incident, using the following categories where possible:
c) possession of a knife or bladed article with no injury or threat
d) a threat made with a knife or bladed article
e) an assault with a knife or bladed article resulting in no injury
f) an assault resulting in injury
g) an assault resulting in serious injury
h) any other knife-related incident
i) and type of incident not recorded

2. I would also like:

a) where your authority records or can identify the type of setting at which each incident occurred
b) 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:

a) fixed-term suspension (with number of days where available
b) permanent exclusion
c) no exclusion with a managed move to another setting
d) no exclusion with another intervention (please specify where possible)
e) no exclusion recorded
f) and outcome not known to the local authority
g) 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.