Submitted on Wednesday 3rd August 2016
Rejected on Monday 8th August 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
We call on the government to scrap the plans to collect passport data in schools
From 2016/17 every individual child starting school and early years are being ask to give identifiable information for school censuses. This includes their country-of-birth, adding to the nationality and ethnicity data already collected.
Schools have already started demanding parents bring in copies of passports.
There has been no public consultation and many parents and teachers are very concerned about these plans.
If the Department is only interested in statistics, it should use the statistical information already available.
We are concerned to learn data has already been given from this database to the Home Office without any public transparency.
Confidential and identifiable data have been given out since 2012
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Department for Education has made it clear that schools are not required to request or see passports for the purposes of compiling information for the 2016-17 school census.
The Department has published "School census 2016 to 2017: Guide, version 1.2" (August 2016):
www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544214/2016_to_2017_School_Census_Guide_V1_2.pdf
This states as follows:
"The country of birth would be expected to appear on – or be derived from – the child’s birth certificate or passport. However, there is no requirement for the school to request, or see, a copy of the birth certificate or passport." (p. 64)
"Pupil nationality would be expected to appear on – or be derived from – the passport or European economic area (EEA) identity card. However, there is no requirement for the school to request, or see, a copy of the passport or identity card." (p. 65)
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