Pete There's an important difficulty about the question as you frame it. "some information about accident/ill health statistics' can mean all sorts of things - depending on the purpose(s) for which you need them. You can only interrogate relevant sources appropriately to the extent that you phrase your questions in ways that they can respond to fairly easily. If you'd like to speak to me briefly to see if we can clarify your search focus well enough, you're welcome to phone me on 020 8654 0808.

I know that several years ago the HSE's Schools Education Advisory Committee used to receive accident stats for schools (as said above, these would be RIDDOR related; but I think they separated out employees from pupils). The committee may well no longer exist but I'd be surprised if the Education Sector didn't keep stats. I'd suggest you ask for them (You could always frame it as Freedom of Information request!)

Morning all Thanks for responses. I apologise for the vagueness of the question - it was made late in the day and in frustration at not being able to find any useful information easily. Naturally there are many variables (pupils/staff/visitors) and many differing factors in the compilation of statistics making it difficult to accurately compile and as 'aud' stated, many will be precautionary. The question was put to me by a head teacher who was curious about how education (not any specific sector) sat in comparison with other sectors of industry, with regard to health and safety, the meaning behind this was relevant to staff and not pupils. I suppose another way of framing would be 'how safe is it to work in the education sector'. In light of the comments, I think I will follow up some suggestions next week - I had just hoped that there would be somewhere a straightforward set of information. It is strange how sometimes a simple question is the most difficult to answer. Thanks again to all. Peter

HSE website: http://www.hse.gov.uk/slips/education/index.htm and http://www.hse.gov.uk/sl...education/statistics.htm "55% of all accidents in education are caused by a slip or a trip. Last year, almost 2000 major injury slip and trip accidents in the education sector were reported to us, 571 of which were to employees, a 5% rise on the previous year. 90% of major accidents resulted in a broken bone causing considerable personal distress and a significant amount of time away from work."

You can get some injury data based on RIDDOR if you look under the item Education, but it will inculde ALL education--from primary to universities. http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/ridind.xls There is an entire range of tables at:- http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/index.htm Alternatively, you can use the Health and Safety Online or HandS-On, a free-to-use service developed by HSE’s Statistics Branch. HandS-On is supposed to allow users to view, manipulate, create and export tables from HSE’s injury and ill health data using a powerful analysis tool. https://handson.hse.gov.uk/hse/public/home.aspx

Thanks to all for responses. Have been using suggestions and beginning to put together some information.