Department for Education figures for the last academic year show that 1,000 pupils are suspended each day for violence in schools. Many of these attacks were against teachers and staff.
Although violence in inner-city schools in the last decade has had a high profile, such incidents are no longer are limited to large cities. As SecEd reported earlier this year, violence against staff in Wales has increased exponentially, rising by over a third in the last three years. In Devon and Cornwall there were more than 400 physical and verbal attacks on teachers last year.
Levels of disruption, aggression and violence contribute to an atmosphere in which it is hard for teachers to teach effectively, but also one in which it can be impossible for pupils to learn.
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