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'We don't want to criminalise young people unnecessarily'

More than 30,000 alleged crimes linked to schools were reported to police in 2014, a 麻豆官网首页入口 investigation has found.
The figure - for England, Wales and Northern Ireland - is equivalent to 160 allegations per school day. Theft and violent crime were the most common types of offence to be reported.
The government said crime had "no place in our schools" and it had given teachers greater powers to tackle it.
Joanna Gosling discussed the issue with Sussex Police's Superintendent Laurence Taylor, who is the police lead for children and young people at a regional level and John Murphy, who is a former headteacher and CEO of Oasis Community Learning, which runs 47 academies across the country.

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