The government is to set to begin collecting data on how many children from immigrant families are being taught in England’s schools at the start of the next school year.

A change in census recored will expand the information that the Department for Education collects, and will include nationality and country of birth alongside the current requirement of marking a individual’s ethnicity.

It is believed that the new information will not be used as part of an investigation into the ‘impact of mass migration’ on schools. The census takes place three times a year.