The next regional analysis covered:
County Durham
Northumberland
Tyne and Wear
Thirty-four schools were examined.
Of these:
28 produced reports of corporal punishment
8 produced no reports
The apparently inconsistent total reflects the way some reorganised schools and successor institutions appear within the working database and will require cleaning before the final statistics are published.
Approximately 193 individual cases were identified.
The earliest dated material came from approximately 1954–57, while the latest examples came from the period shortly before abolition.
The provisional breakdown was:
Cane, location unspecified — 40%
Cane on hand — 14%
Slipper, location unspecified — 10%
Strap, location unspecified — 8%
Slipper — 5%
Other implement, location unspecified — 4%
Hand punishment — 3%
Slipper to legs — 3%
Strap on hand — 3%
Hand punishment to legs — 2%
Other implement — 2%
Cane elsewhere — 1%
The percentages are rounded.
