My son is going to a new school in September, and they have asked for various personal data. Including Ethnic Origin. Does anyone have any idea why this is required (particularly in the light of principles 2&3)? Intake to the school appears to be entirely on the basis of catchment area (so no quotas on specific religions or ethnic origin), and we indisputably live within that catchment area. -- Roland Perry ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^