The non-statutory advice has been produced to help local authorities, admission authorities and parents of children born during June, July and August understand the framework within which admission authorities must operate.
It also aims to dispel some of the myths that the DfE says have arisen around the admission of children born in the summer. it should be read in conjunction with the School Admissions Code 2012.
The advice was created by parents of summer-born children including Stefan Richter, who as Nursery World reported in January, won the case to defer his daughter’s school entry by a year. Bliss, the charity for premature babies, also contributed to the revised advice.
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