The Department for Education published research this week which found that the number of parental requests for summer-born children to defer entry into Reception has risen significantly in the past two years. The number of requests increased by 84 per cent (from 916 to 1,750) between 2015 and 2017. Around three-quarters of requests were granted by local authorities.
While these figures still account for a very small proportion (around 0.5 per cent) of the five-year-old population of the 92 local authorities that took part in the survey, the leap over a relatively short period warrants exploration. So, what has spurred an increasing number of parents to take that decision?
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