A Leeds mum claims knife crime has been plaguing her children’s journeys to school to the point where she daren’t let her kids walk in alone.
Security guards are now employed to pace around Co-op Academy in Stoney Rock Lane, Burmantofts, with the school confirming they have been hired externally. If there are "reasonable grounds" to believe students are bringing something into school which is unsafe for themselves or other pupils, bag and pocket searches are conducted.
The Burmantofts area came out as the worst ‘sharp weapons’ hotspot in Leeds over the past year, with the most incidents involving under-25s, tied with Little London, Woodhouse.
