Schools have been told to no longer record every pupil’s nationality and country of birth, after a huge outcry and calls for a parental boycott.
However, historic data gathered since the policy was introduced in October 2016 will not be deleted by the Department for Education (DfE), which will retain it for research purposes.
The climbdown has been revealed in a guide to the school census - the statutory survey of students that takes place three times a year - released by the DfE.
It says: “Schools must no longer request this information from parents, or retain the data within their system, for purpose of transmitting to the department via the school census.”
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