There were more than a hundred incidents of violence against local authority staff in pre-school education centres in 2001-02, the Scottish Executive announced last week. Incidents in pre-school centres accounted for 2 per cent of the total of 5,412 incidents across Scotland, which includes those reported by primary, secondary and special school staff. The incidents include physical violence, verbal abuse or intentional damage to personal property, and include threatening behaviour with or without a weapon. This is the fourth year that the Scottish Executive has collated data on incidents from all Scotland's local authorities, and the fourth successive increase.
There were more than a hundred incidents of violence against local authority staff in pre-school education centres in 2001-02, the Scottish Executive announced last week. Incidents in pre-school centres accounted for 2 per cent of the total of 5,412 incidents across Scotland, which includes those reported by primary, secondary and special school staff. The incidents include physical violence, verbal abuse or intentional damage to personal property, and include threatening behaviour with or without a weapon. This is the fourth year that the Scottish Executive has collated data on incidents from all Scotland's local authorities, and the fourth successive increase.
