Primary Education: Admissions

(asked on 15th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times parents have requested that their summer-born child start reception at five since September 2015; and what proportion of those requests were (a) accepted and (b) refused.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 24th November 2017

The Department does not routinely collect this information. We have, however, recently conducted a survey of local councils and are currently preparing the results for publication. They will be available in due course.

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