Primary Education: Admissions

(asked on 2nd February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to re-evaluate the school starting age in the light of the later starting age in other European countries.


Answered by
 Portrait
Lord Nash
This question was answered on 9th February 2015

We do not currently have any plans to review the school starting age in England.

The majority of children in countries from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development attend non-compulsory pre-school education before the age of five.

We believe it is important to ensure that young children receive high-quality age-appropriate education. To this end, all types of setting for children aged from birth up until the end of the school year in which they turn five are required to deliver the early years foundation stage curriculum.

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