After a successful campaign by human rights charities, teachers and parents, schools will no longer be required to collect pupil nationality and country of birth data.
The DfE claimed it was to help provide education services for the children of immigrants, but leaked documents showed that it was at the request of the Home Office who wanted the data to create a hostile environment for illegal immigrants and to deprioritise their children for school places.
They were forced to say that this data would not be handed to the Home Office, and since there is now no point in collecting it, the DfE will be writing to schools to say it is no longer required.
Well done to all involved.
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Government U-turn: DfE don’t want pupil nationality data now they can’t hand it to the Home Office
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noblegiraffe · 09/04/2018 22:56
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