In 2015, the former schools minister Nick Gibb pledged to legislate to allow children born between April and August to be automatically admitted to Reception if they delay starting school until they turn five – rather than the term after their fourth birthday – and remain with their original cohort throughout their education.
The commitment was in response to instances where children were being forced to miss their Reception year. This is because admission authorities did not approve parental requests for their child to be admitted outside of their normal year group.
However, academies minister Baroness Barran has now decided not to continue to pursue legislation on the issue as ‘data suggests that the system for summer-born admissions is now working much better than it was’.
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