FOI/202600514890 · FOI · partially withheld
Pupil violence and aggression in Scotland's schools: FOI release
Information requested
Copies of correspondence sent by members of the public to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills between April 1, 2022 and April 1, 2026, in which there is discussion of pupil violence and aggression in Scotland's schools.
Any data on the volume of correspondence received by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, and/or by the Government and/or all ministers, in relation to school violence, in each of the last five years.
Response
Copies of correspondence sent by members of the public to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills between April 1, 2022 and April 1, 2026, in which there is discussion of pupil violence and aggression in Scotland's schools.
I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested as separate enclosures.
Some of the information you have requested is available from the Scottish Government website as part of previously released Freedom of Information Requests. This information can be accessed from Pupil violence and aggression in Scotland's schools: FOI release - gov.scot and Documentation on free tuition for university students policy, Pisa results, school violence and exam results: FOI release - gov.scot.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption(s) under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie names, contact details and other potentially identifiable information, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.
Any data on the volume of correspondence received by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, and/or by the Government and/or all ministers, in relation to school violence, in each of the last five years.
The volume of volume of correspondence received by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, and/or by the Government and/or all ministers, in relation to school violence, in each of the last five years is detailed below, provided by calendar year. For 2026, figures have been provided from 1 January to the date of your request.
2021: 1
2022: 11
2023: 44
2024: 11
2025: 14
2026 (1 January – 17 April): 9
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Detected exemption language
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption(s) under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie names, contact details and other potentially identifiable information, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.