The school where a teenager was stabbed to death last month did not take part in a nationwide anti-knife crime campaign because council bosses felt it was not necessary.
Aberdeen City Council decided not to participate in the Scottish Government’s No Knives, Better Lives campaign.
But after the stabbing of 16 year-old Bailey Gwynne at Cults Academy on October 28, council chiefs are reviewing their decision.
The teenager died in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a result of his injuries.
Another boy of 16 remains in custody after being been charged with his murder and having a bladed weapon in school.
The No Knives, Better Lives campaign aims to raise awareness of the consequences of carrying a knife and provides information on local activities and opportunities for young people.
Knife crime is considered by Aberdeen City council to not be a high priority due to the low number of incidents across the north-east.
Angela Taylor, the education and children’s services convenor for Aberdeen City Council, said that the campaign was something that the council were now looking at.
She said: “There is no real knife crime culture in the north-east, but following on from the tragic incident at Cults Academy, it’s certainly something that we’d be looking at putting on the council agenda.
“We have a zero tolerance policy on all acts of violence and anything we can do to prevent further incidents is worth discussing.
“The safety of our children is of paramount importance to us all. When you send them to school the least you expect is that they return home safely.
“It would be a council decision and one I wouldn’t be averse to looking at.”
A spokesman for Aberdeen City Council confirmed that the local authority did not take up the offer to participate in the campaign because of an “exceptionally low” number of knife incidents in schools.
He said: “We decided not to take up the offer to participate in the No Knives, Better Lives campaign.
“We have an exceptionally low level of incidents involving knives in our schools, with little or no history of such incidents.”
In Scotland, the number of under-19s convicted of handling offensive weapons had fallen from 812 in 2006-2007 to 165.
The No Knives, Better Lives campaign was launched in 2009.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: “Tackling violent crime remains a key priority for this Government and, since 2006-07, we have invested over £9.5million in violence reduction programmes for our young people, including £2.5million for No Knives, Better Lives alone.
“Our approach is working – the number of young people under 19 convicted of handling an offensive weapon has fallen from 812 in 2006/7 down to 165 in 2013/14, and recorded crimes of handling an offensive weapon have fallen by 67 per cent since 2006-07, to their lowest levels in 31 years.”