One in five school staff in Northern Ireland are assaulted at least once a week.
A headline in the Belfast News Letter of 21 March 2019 states "One in five school staff assaulted once a week in Northern Ireland" (sic). The newspaper reported the findings of a survey of education workers by the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Committee of Trade Unions (ICTU) Education Group. [...] ICTU’s press release states that "1 on 5 receive physical abuse ONCE a WEEK" (sic). [...] The ICTU inaccurately presented the findings of its education workers survey in their press release. As a consequence, it was misreported by the Belfast News Letter. The survey found that 1 in 10, rather than the claimed 1 in 5, of education workers experience physical abuse at least once a week.