It compares to 80 across the whole of the last financial year, and 93 the year before.

The blacklisting comes following physical assaults on staff – which peaked with 298 in the 2015/16 financial year.

So far this year there have been just 81 attacks on frontline staff, according to figures uncovered by a Freedom of Information request.

Reported by The Express and Star. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.