Educational Institutions: Crimes of Violence

Mr. Burns
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what estimate he has made of the number of teachers working in (a) West Chelmsford constituency, (b) Essex and (c) England who were subject to physical attack in the workplace in 2008;

(2) what estimate he has made of the number of physical attacks against people working in education in West Chelmsford constituency in 2008.

Beverley Hughes
The requested information is not collected centrally.

Information about the number of permanent and fixed period exclusions as a result of a physical assault against an adult was published in Statistical First Release (SFR) 14/2008 “Permanent and Fixed Period Exclusions from Schools in England 2006/07”, available on my Department's website:

www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/.