Eight per cent of North Yorkshire School pupils say they have carried weapons when going out.
The figure comes from a survey of pupils carried out by the county's Children and Young People's Service.
Councillor Karin Sedgewick says the results are concerning.
12% of pupils who responded to the survey stated that there'd been victims of violence and 8% of carried weapons.
Clearly, this is an item of concern.
The Council's Corporate Director for Children's services - Stuart Carlton - says the figures are low but do show that more action is required to reduce the number further.
"The relative incidents of knife crime in North Yorkshire is really low compared to nearly every other local authority area.
So we should have some confidence that, knife crime itself and the carrying of knives that then resorting crimes is low here.
What happens with this data is that's presented into individual reports for schools so they can target their own work with children and young people through targeted work, through PHSE and other things. So it informs helpful data for the schools to understand what's going on locally."
Stuart Carlton says the data gained from the "Growing Up in North Yorkshire" survey is more granular than similar surveys carried out elsewhere in the country and provides local schools with more detailed information including around experiences of violence.
"This is something we still do as a local authority, where many of us have dropped this sort of survey a long time ago. And that's relevant because we ask a series of questions that aren't part of national data sets. So I don't know how others perform because they don't ask those questions.
And I'm pleased we asked the question so that we can do work really early in the system around night crime. And we work in partnership with police and others around messaging to schools, um, messaging to parents, and there's information on the safeguarding website for parents, professionals, and others around these sorts of issues."
The survey found that:
- 24% of pupils responded that they have been bullied at or near school/college in the last 12 months, while 16% said they are 'not sure' if they have been.
- 30% of pupils responded that they were pushed/hit in the month before the survey and 17% said they had belongings taken/broken. 34% said none of these things happened to them.
- 18% of pupils responded that their school/college deals with bullying 'badly'.
- 49% of Year 8+ pupils responded that they have found school/college lessons about prejudice, discrimination and bullying 'quite'
or 'very' useful, while 12% have found them 'not at all' useful and 9% couldn't remember any. - 12% of pupils responded that they have been the victim of violence or aggression in the area where they live in the last 12 months, while 12% said they are 'not sure' if they have been.
- 8% of pupils responded that they have carried weapons when going out at least 'sometimes'.
- 3% of pupils responded that they have carried weapons when going out at night.
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