An increase in crimes reported at schools, an inquiry into Holocaust education, and Educating Children at a Time of Unprecedented Change – a school-led education conference – are among SecEd's At a glance headlines for Thursday, October 1, 2015.

A total of 30,294 crimes were reported at schools and further education colleges during 2014, an investigation by the BBC has discovered.

Violent crime and theft were the most commonly reported incidents, although there were 1,502 sexual offences among the total.

The data came after the BBC submitted Freedom of Information requests to police services across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – with 32 of 40 or so services responding.

The total is an increase on figures from 2013 when 28,444 crimes were reported. The 2014 figures included the following crimes:

The largest number of crimes were reported to the Metropolitan Police in London (7,002 reports), and the police services in Greater Manchester (2,434) and the West Midlands (1,929).

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