Unlike the FBI, which collects Uniform Crime Reports based upon actual reported crimes to law enforcement, federal education reports are based only on limited academic research surveys, not a comprehensive collection of actual reported crimes to law enforcement nationwide.Furthermore, even the federal surveys are outdated and questionable in content. When possible, submit an incident report in person and make yourself available to answer further questions or provide clarification. Even in cases where local daily newspapers have investigated and identified gross inaccuracies in local school district crime reports to states and to police, most school districts are quick to claim “clerical errors” or a “lack of understanding of the law and guidelines” for reporting — and nobody is ever significantly held accountable with substantive consequences.There are countless documented examples of serious school crime and serious incident underreporting, non-reporting, and delayed reporting across the United States. Many would say doing so is child abuse!Federal statistics grossly underestimate the extent of school crime and violence. Find out the name of the person or department to whom your report must be sent. There is no “double jeopardy” when both systems are engaged.Accurately reporting incidents also is the first step in developing effective prevention strategies. School crime and violence statistics put out by the federal government, such as their “Indicators of School Crime and Safety” reports, are based upon self-report surveys and other limited academic surveys and research — not actual reported school crimes in K-12 schools throughout the United States. The story says the education department claimed just eight schools experienced 180 or more incidents (crimes or non-criminal disturbance), yet the advocate’s survey found that 18 of 158 principals and administrators surveyed said they handled more than 180 incidents over the period of the 2004-05 school year. For instance, in the UK, it’s mandatory for all childcare providers to maintain incident reports, inform parents and get their signatures on the reports, no matter how small the injury. The auditors reviewed records of 17 high schools from 15 school districts. While some school officials too often are afraid of creating fear and an adverse image of themselves by talking about —and dealing with —school security and emergency preparedness issues, their resulting silence and inaction actually creates the very fear and negative images they so desperately want to avoid in the eyes of parents and the media.1) Many school administrators fail to distinguish crimes from violations of school rules. Far too many also believe that if they even talk about school security and emergency preparedness measures, it will alarm many parents and draw adverse media attention (many deem ANY media attention as being adverse, even when it is not). The monitor was quoted as saying that the incidents were part of a larger problem of a failing disciplinary system in the district.November 27, 2007, Associated Press story out of Jackson, Mississippi, reported on discrepancies between incident numbers reported by state officials versus that reported by local school officials. But police records showed 53 fight reports in the school district during that time. Police said that after telling the principal the police planned to talk with each cheerleader, the principal allegedly called a squad meeting of the cheerleaders and told them not to talk with anyone. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form.

According to the story, earlier in the year in February the school was put on the city’s list of dangerous schools, and some staff members felt pressure to drive down the statistics.A February 22, 2007, New York Post story reported on a survey report released by a city public advocate claiming that the city’s education department was grossly under-reporting the number of school safety incidents. During this time, the employee reportedly was unsupervised and remained in the school with children present. Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.Ofsted can take action against you if you do not tell us about these incidents within 14 days.The day of the incident is the first of these 14 days.More information is available on what Ofsted sees as a.You must also tell Ofsted about any allegations of serious harm or abuse anywhere by any person at the premises who is:You do not need to tell us about closing your childcare in the short term.You will fulfil your legal requirements if you submit the online report within 14 days.

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to manage issues and develop strategies or corrective actions in response to an incident. In one example cited in the story, the Crosby ISD in the 2005-2006 school year did not report one fighting incident to the state. These school administrators believe that parents and the community will view them as poor managers of their schools if their school has a high number of incidents or appears in the media because of a school crime incident.

It is setting kids up for failure if we send them the messages that schools are islands of lawlessness where the criminal law does not apply. endstream endobj 754 0 obj <. In Albany High School, officials reported 144 incidents to the state office, but auditors found 924 violent or disruptive incidents during the 2003-04 school year, according to the story. Assaults and robberies were among the other crimes not reported, according to the story. It will take about 10 to 20 minutes to complete.There is separate guidance for local authorities or members of the public who want to report incidents.Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Parents expect schools to acknowledge and deal with problems head-on, while schools often fail to do so out of fear that parents will look negatively upon them for doing so.Local school officials are actually in the best position to address this issue regardless of state and federal obstacles. Since being labeled as “persistently dangerous” has serious political and administrative implications for local school administrators, principals will be pressured to underreport and/or non-report school crime and violence.