When is a profile no longer personal data. This is bothering me in current and future data protection. Exclusions and absence, poverty, ethnicity, language, SEN and health, attainment indicators, their birth year.

From September 2016 parents, guardians and carers in England will be asked to state if their children are foreign nationals. The education office has an agreement to send details of up to 1,500 children a month to the home office in order to create a hostile environment. Families can refuse to answer. Families and schools can take action to protect children.

What the North can teach the South about welcoming refugees. It was extraordinary to be at the Sanctuary in Parliament event this week, eleven years after Inderjit Bhogal and I first started to imagine the possibility of a City of Sanctuary movement in Sheffield.