Question follow-through · 3778
Teachers: Crimes against the Person
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the prevalence of assaults on teachers in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure staff safety in classrooms.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the prevalence of assaults on teachers in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure staff safety in classrooms.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2026
Answer published
Teachers should not be subjected to any form of abuse simply for doing their jobs and any form of violence in school is completely unacceptable and should not be tolerated. We will work with the sector to make clear that abuse against teachers will not be...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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