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Summer-born Children

Answer

Following recent complaints about the difficulties faced by summer-born children in the admissions process, the Department worked with Bliss, the charity for premature babies, and a small group of parents to produce the advice on the admission of summer-born children that was published on 29 July this year. We expect this advice will inform the allocation and offer of school places for 2014.

We will continue to monitor correspondence on this issue and to work with Bliss and our partners on the Admissions Group to assess the impact of the advice and decide whether the nature of future complaints warrant further action from the Department to ensure that admission authorities do make appropriate use of the flexibility available to them when considering parental requests to vary the school starting age for summer-born children.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

901001; 570 c507W

Session

2013-14

Question not reached

Yes

Subjects

Admissions Schools

Link

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