Government plans for a register of children not in school could put families off seeking help from local services, data privacy and human rights campaigners have warned.
The Counting Children Coalition has also questioned plans by ministers to amend their own schools bill this afternoon to give them the power to require councils to collect data on pupils’ protected characteristics, such as race, religion and sexual orientation.
The government announced plans for a register of children not in school in 2019, but the policy was not set in motion until this year.
