Teachers injured by pupils whilst at work (FOI)

​Request 687421288

​1. How many teachers have experienced violent injuries at work in Jersey between 2019 and 2024

2. How many teachers needed hospital treatment for injuries sustained following attacks by pupils at schools between 2019 and 2024

3. How many pupils have been disciplined for bringing knives or other weapons to school between 2019 and 2024

4. What weapons have been confiscated from pupils between 2019 and 2024

Response

From the data we are able to extract from our systems please see the responses below:

1. The table below represents the number of staff within Government of Jersey schools that have experienced incidents of violence and aggression. The data that we have been able to extract from our systems includes all staff within schools and not just teachers. In order to determine whether the member of staff is a teacher would require interrogation of each incident. This would take in excess of 12.5 working hours as this information is not held in a format that we can report from.  Therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

2. The table below also represents the number of staff who attended A&E for treatment. The data that we have been able to extract from our systems includes all staff within schools and not just teachers. In order to determine whether the member of staff is a teacher would require interrogation of each incident. This would take in excess of 12.5 working hours as this information is not held in a format that we can report from.  Therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

The figures for attendances at A&E are for those who attended as a result of an incidence of violence and aggression. This data does not contain details of hospital treatment received. In order to determine whether the member of staff received hospital treatment would require interrogation of each incident. This would take in excess of 12.5 working hours as this information is not held in a format that we can report from.  Therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  

Please note there is no incident data available on our current system for 2019.

3. In order to answer the question from the data held within our systems, we are able to extract the number of pupils that have received fixed term exclusions for the academic year 2018/2019 to academic year 2023/2024, where the reason was “Use or threat of use of an offensive weapon or prohibited item”. 

The total number of pupils receiving a fixed term exclusion within this category for the time period requested was 34. 

4. This information is not held in recorded form. To provide an answer to the request would require extraction and manipulation of data to produce new information.

A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets. It has been estimated that the cost of extracting the data would exceed the cost limit provisions set out in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.​