Children as young as nursery age have been responsible for more than 3,000 attacks on staff in Wales’ schools in less than three years, we can reveal.
Violent attacks – including seven reported stabbings on primary school staff – have seen thousands of pupils excluded for as long as eight weeks.
Teaching unions last night branded the epidemic of classroom altercations as “outrageous” and “totally unacceptable”, with calls for a clampdown on the problem.