{"id":456817,"date":"2026-03-04T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:33:08","slug":"essex-pupils-told-not-to-wear-school-blazers-amid-disorder-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456817\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex pupils told not to wear school blazers amid disorder threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pupils from secondary schools have been told not to wear their blazers while walking home due to the risk of planned &#8220;disorder&#8221; between children from different schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Police said teenagers had been using social media to organise anti-social behaviour in the south of the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Genevieve Mullen, a parent who is also a BBC producer, said her son was sent home with a letter outlining the action police had taken to try to prevent any violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s worrying to receive a letter like that and to hear that your children have been [specifically] told not to bring in weapons to school,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pupils from secondary schools have been told not to wear their blazers while walking home due to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}