Overview
- The Metropolitan Police arrested a man in his 20s and a 15-year-old on March 1 on suspicion of encouraging or assisting a crime linked to the trend, and both were later released on bail pending further inquiries.
- Nottinghamshire Police increased high‑visibility patrols but said they have no intelligence of planned violence and confirmed a separate school stabbing in Lenton was unrelated to the online posts.
- West Midlands Police arrested a 13-year-old on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon at a Solihull school, with officers urging parents to discuss safe social media use; no link to organised 'school wars' was asserted.
- In Bristol, ITV viewed footage of a 12-year-old girl being repeatedly punched at school, and her family say the violence was inflamed by a 'School Wars' post circulating among local teenagers.
- Birmingham’s Erdington Academy told parents widely shared posters were entirely fabricated and a hoax, while police and West Mercia officers warned that sharing false or misleading material online may be an offence and kept patrols in place to reassure communities.