Teachers injured by pupils whilst at work (2) (FOI)

1. Could you please break these down by school, i.e. how many assaults at each school for each year. And the same for teachers having to visit A&E, per school per year. 

2. Could you also tell me how many of these assaults resulted in exclusion of pupils and how many - if any - resulted in criminal charges. 

Original Response

1. In order to produce a breakdown per school of violence and aggression incidents reported and to produce the numbers of teachers having to visit A&E would require analysis of each individual violence and aggression incident reported to CYPES. The department have determined that to produce the data would take in excess of 12.5 working hours therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  

2. In order to produce a further breakdown of the previously published response to identify if any assaults resulted in the exclusion of a pupil or criminal charges would require analysis of each individual violence and aggression incident reported to CYPES. The department have determined that to produce the data would take in excess of 12.5 working hours therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Article applied

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.​

​Internal Review Request  

I do not believe that this would take more than 12.5 hours and would like to appeal. 

I would like to know how many hours it would take to put together this data for *each year* and *as a whole*.  

Internal Review Response 

This internal review has been conducted by an official of appropriate seniority who has not been involved in the original decision. As part of their review, they will be expected to understand the reasons behind the original response, impartially determine whether the response should be revised, and how so, considering the request and the information held, any relevant exemptions, or other relevant matters under the Law.  

The Internal Review Panel was asked to review the original response and confirm the following:  

Does the FOI request relate to a body to which the Law applies, or information held by a body covered by the Law?  

If the answer is no, all the other questions are not applicable.        

Further questions if above is a yes:    

i. Was the right information searched for and reviewed? 

ii. Was the information supplied appropriately?   

iii. Was information appropriately withheld in accordance with the articles applied and were the public interest test/ prejudice test properly applied? 

The Internal Review Panel agreed that the Article applied was correct and the decision to apply was upheld.