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1. Delete all pupil nationality and country of birth data, before March 2019.

2. Revoke the Education (Pupil Information) (England) (Miscellaneous Amendments)

Regulations 2016 (SI 808/2016) that enabled the collection of pupils' nationality data.

3. Protect all personal data collected for children's educational purposes under the

Education Act 1996 (s 537a) from Home Office requests in immigration enforcement.

In June 2018, the DfE confirmed nationality and country-of-birth data must no longer be

collected for national purposes, but nothing stops the use of the data gathered already.

Read more about the expansion of the school census and Home Office use on the timeline:

Under the umbrella campaign of Against Borders for Children, over 25 leading child rights

organisations and advocates including Liberty, Privacy International, and Just For Kids

Law are challenging the Department for Education’s use of children's  personal

information collected in the school census, in immigration enforcement. We need your

help. Call for action to restore child rights. Education not deportation. Let teachers teach.

We need your help to defend children's right to education and right to privacy.  National pupil data collected in schools had been used

in secret for immigration enforcement since 2015

when we discovered and exposed its use in 2016.

Please speak out now.                             #BoycottSchoolCensus                     Don't abuse our data.

https://defenddigitalme.com/timeline-school-census/

Call on the DfE to support child rights and a three point plan

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Handovers continue each month to the Home Office

of the full names, date-of-birth, gender, home and

school addresses of up to 1,500 children at a time.

School census records are lawfully collected only for the purposes of education under the

Education Act 1996 (s537a). While Ministers told the public during its introduction that the

new collection of nationality would not be passed over the Home Office, in fact the data

sharing agreement had already been written to include it. Nothing prevents its future use.

Children need to trust that they can be safe in school. Every child has a right to education.