Racism Offences in Schools and Nurseries - 1040/20

Date Responded 22 July 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

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You asked:

I would like the following information for the last four years i.e. 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, broken down by month if possible.

1. The number of reports of racism offences at schools. If possible, I would also like this information broken down by the ethnicity of the victim.

2. The number of reports of racism offences at nurseries. If possible, I would also like this information broken down by the ethnicity of the victim.

3. The number of arrests made because of racism offences at schools.

4. The number of arrests made because of racism offences at nurseries.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

The data in response to this request has been gathered from the central database crime, arrest and victim tables.

The criteria used for selection were that the crime was identified as racially motivated, and that the premise type contained the word "school"

The results of those searches are as below.

To note – there were no such offences recorded as being in nurseries so response to points 2 & 4 is nil.

Period		Asian	Black	Middle Eastern	White - North European	White - South European	Unknown Ethnicity
2017	Jan	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017	Feb	0	0	0	2	0	0
2017	Mar	0	0	0	3	0	1
2017	Apr	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017	May	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017	Jun	4	0	0	4	1	1
2017	Jul	1	0	0	0	0	0
2017	Aug	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017	Sep	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017	Oct	1	0	0	0	0	0
2017	Nov	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017	Dec	0	1	0	1	0	0
2018	Jan	0	0	0	2	0	1
2018	Feb	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018	Mar	0	0	0	1	0	0
2018	Apr	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018	May	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018	Jun	2	2	0	0	0	0
2018	Jul	0	0	0	0	0	1
2018	Aug	0	1	0	0	0	0
2018	Sep	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018	Oct	1	0	0	0	0	0
2018	Nov	0	1	0	3	0	2
2018	Dec	2	0	0	0	0	2
2019	Jan	2	0	0	0	0	0
2019	Feb	0	0	0	1	0	2
2019	Mar	1	0	0	0	0	2
2019	Apr	0	0	0	0	0	3
2019	May	2	0	0	0	1	1
2019	Jun	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019	Jul	2	2	1	1	0	1
2019	Aug	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019	Sep	0	0	0	0	0	2
2019	Oct	0	0	0	0	2	8
2019	Nov	0	6	0	8	0	1
2019	Dec	1	0	2	2	0	3
2020	Jan	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	Feb	0	2	0	0	0	2
2020	Mar	0	14	0	0	0	0
2020	Apr	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	May	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	Jun	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	Jul	0	0	0	0	0	0

Period		Arrests
2017	Jan	0
2017	Feb	0
2017	Mar	0
2017	Apr	0
2017	May	0
2017	Jun	8
2017	Jul	0
2017	Aug	0
2017	Sep	0
2017	Oct	0
2017	Nov	0
2017	Dec	0
2018	Jan	0
2018	Feb	0
2018	Mar	0
2018	Apr	0
2018	May	0
2018	Jun	0
2018	Jul	0
2018	Aug	0
2018	Sep	0
2018	Oct	0
2018	Nov	2
2018	Dec	0
2019	Jan	0
2019	Feb	0
2019	Mar	0
2019	Apr	0
2019	May	0
2019	Jun	0
2019	Jul	0
2019	Aug	0
2019	Sep	0
2019	Oct	0
2019	Nov	0
2019	Dec	0
2020	Jan	0
2020	Feb	0
2020	Mar	0
2020	Apr	0
2020	May	0
2020	Jun	0
2020	Jul	0

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