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1697211

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Offensive Weapons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many weapons were seized in schools in England in (a) 2018 and (b) 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
	uin	19493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on how many weapons have been seized in schools.</p><p>The statutory ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) guidance advises schools on creating safe environments. KCSIE is clear that all staff should have an awareness of safeguarding issues that can put children at risk of harm. The ‘Searching, Screening and Confiscation’ Guidance was updated in 2022 to emphasise the importance of the school duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils and staff. Headteachers, and the staff they authorise, have a statutory power to search a pupil or their possessions, where they have reasonable grounds to suspect that the pupil may have a prohibited item, such as knives or weapons, and confiscate such items.</p><p>The department works across government, and with other partners, on initiatives to prevent serious violence, including knife crime. Over £50 million has been made available to fund specialist support in mainstream and alternative provision schools in the areas where serious violence most affects children and communities. This includes SAFE (‘Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed’) taskforces that have been established in ten areas, reaching over 2,100 children as of September 2023. Taskforces are school-led partnerships investing in evidence-based interventions in and around school, such as mentoring and social skills training, that reach children early on, to re-engage them in their education and reduce their involvement in serious violence. To benefit areas outside of the programme, the department has published a supportive guide on school-based interventions, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 19494 19495 19496 19497 19498 question first answered 27/03/2024 14:49:05 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1697212

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Knives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of guidance for schools on knife crime.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
	uin	19494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on how many weapons have been seized in schools.</p><p>The statutory ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) guidance advises schools on creating safe environments. KCSIE is clear that all staff should have an awareness of safeguarding issues that can put children at risk of harm. The ‘Searching, Screening and Confiscation’ Guidance was updated in 2022 to emphasise the importance of the school duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils and staff. Headteachers, and the staff they authorise, have a statutory power to search a pupil or their possessions, where they have reasonable grounds to suspect that the pupil may have a prohibited item, such as knives or weapons, and confiscate such items.</p><p>The department works across government, and with other partners, on initiatives to prevent serious violence, including knife crime. Over £50 million has been made available to fund specialist support in mainstream and alternative provision schools in the areas where serious violence most affects children and communities. This includes SAFE (‘Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed’) taskforces that have been established in ten areas, reaching over 2,100 children as of September 2023. Taskforces are school-led partnerships investing in evidence-based interventions in and around school, such as mentoring and social skills training, that reach children early on, to re-engage them in their education and reduce their involvement in serious violence. To benefit areas outside of the programme, the department has published a supportive guide on school-based interventions, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 19493 19495 19496 19497 19498 question first answered 27/03/2024 14:49:05 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1697214

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Knives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with Ofsted on guidance for schools on knife crime.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
	uin	19496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on how many weapons have been seized in schools.</p><p>The statutory ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) guidance advises schools on creating safe environments. KCSIE is clear that all staff should have an awareness of safeguarding issues that can put children at risk of harm. The ‘Searching, Screening and Confiscation’ Guidance was updated in 2022 to emphasise the importance of the school duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils and staff. Headteachers, and the staff they authorise, have a statutory power to search a pupil or their possessions, where they have reasonable grounds to suspect that the pupil may have a prohibited item, such as knives or weapons, and confiscate such items.</p><p>The department works across government, and with other partners, on initiatives to prevent serious violence, including knife crime. Over £50 million has been made available to fund specialist support in mainstream and alternative provision schools in the areas where serious violence most affects children and communities. This includes SAFE (‘Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed’) taskforces that have been established in ten areas, reaching over 2,100 children as of September 2023. Taskforces are school-led partnerships investing in evidence-based interventions in and around school, such as mentoring and social skills training, that reach children early on, to re-engage them in their education and reduce their involvement in serious violence. To benefit areas outside of the programme, the department has published a supportive guide on school-based interventions, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 19493 19494 19495 19497 19498 question first answered 27/03/2024 14:49:05 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1697215

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on regarding knife crime.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
	uin	19497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on how many weapons have been seized in schools.</p><p>The statutory ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) guidance advises schools on creating safe environments. KCSIE is clear that all staff should have an awareness of safeguarding issues that can put children at risk of harm. The ‘Searching, Screening and Confiscation’ Guidance was updated in 2022 to emphasise the importance of the school duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils and staff. Headteachers, and the staff they authorise, have a statutory power to search a pupil or their possessions, where they have reasonable grounds to suspect that the pupil may have a prohibited item, such as knives or weapons, and confiscate such items.</p><p>The department works across government, and with other partners, on initiatives to prevent serious violence, including knife crime. Over £50 million has been made available to fund specialist support in mainstream and alternative provision schools in the areas where serious violence most affects children and communities. This includes SAFE (‘Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed’) taskforces that have been established in ten areas, reaching over 2,100 children as of September 2023. Taskforces are school-led partnerships investing in evidence-based interventions in and around school, such as mentoring and social skills training, that reach children early on, to re-engage them in their education and reduce their involvement in serious violence. To benefit areas outside of the programme, the department has published a supportive guide on school-based interventions, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 19493 19494 19495 19496 19498 question first answered 27/03/2024 14:49:05 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1697216

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Knives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the incidence of knife crime on school premises.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
	uin	19498
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on how many weapons have been seized in schools.</p><p>The statutory ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) guidance advises schools on creating safe environments. KCSIE is clear that all staff should have an awareness of safeguarding issues that can put children at risk of harm. The ‘Searching, Screening and Confiscation’ Guidance was updated in 2022 to emphasise the importance of the school duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils and staff. Headteachers, and the staff they authorise, have a statutory power to search a pupil or their possessions, where they have reasonable grounds to suspect that the pupil may have a prohibited item, such as knives or weapons, and confiscate such items.</p><p>The department works across government, and with other partners, on initiatives to prevent serious violence, including knife crime. Over £50 million has been made available to fund specialist support in mainstream and alternative provision schools in the areas where serious violence most affects children and communities. This includes SAFE (‘Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed’) taskforces that have been established in ten areas, reaching over 2,100 children as of September 2023. Taskforces are school-led partnerships investing in evidence-based interventions in and around school, such as mentoring and social skills training, that reach children early on, to re-engage them in their education and reduce their involvement in serious violence. To benefit areas outside of the programme, the department has published a supportive guide on school-based interventions, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-taskforces</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 19493 19494 19495 19496 19497 question first answered 27/03/2024 14:49:05 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark