JNC Violence and Aggression Update 2 Sept 2025
Renfrewshire Council · 2 September 2025
Back to Renfrewshire Council Joint Negotiating Committee for Teaching Staff — 2 September 2025 and its agenda
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1 Agenda Item .......... Renfrewshire Joint Negotiating Committee for Teachers To: Renfrewshire Joint Negotiating Committee for Teachers On: 02 September 2025 Violence and Aggression Update 1. Summary This report provides the board with data on violent incidents in schools for the period 1 April -30 June 2025 2. Recommendations 2.1 This report is for information only and to note that this is a retrospective record of reported incidents. 3. Background 3.1 During the reporting period 1st April – 30thJune 2025 there were 193 violent incidents reported to teachers. Of these incidents, 3 were reported to the Health and Safety Executive under RIDDOR as an over 7-day workplace injury, whereby the injured person (IP) was unable to attend the workplace for more than 7 days. • IP was assaulted by a young person - bruising and damage to ribs. • IP was struck on the head with a golf club - head injury. • IP was shaken by a young person - resulting in whiplash. (Late reported) Of the 193 incidents reported, 95 were recorded as non-injury events being incident related, the most significant injury type reported was bruising to the injured person. 3.2 The work continues on the Children’s Services (CS) service guidance for managing and reporting distressed and dysregulated behaviour document. 3.3 The Corporate Health & Safety (H&S) team hold weekly meetings with the CS H&S Coordinator. These meetings primarily focus on incident reviews and trend analysis, incorporating data on staff numbers and incident volumes. The outputs from these discussions should be regularly shared and reviewed at the CS Senior Leadership Team (SLT) meetings to ensure strategic oversight and informed decision-making. 3.4 Ongoing work is being undertaken to enhance the reporting outputs related to violence and aggression (V&A) within BW.
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2 3.5 The Corporate H&S team continues to actively participate in a national health and safety working group. This group is focused on developing strategies to address violent incidents in schools, contributing to a broader effort to improve safety and wellbeing across the education sector. Authors: Gareth Richards / Steven Fanning