Summer-born children: advice for admission authorities
Guidance for local authorities and school admission authorities on admissions for children born in the summer.
Applies to England
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This guidance is for:
- local authorities
- school admission authorities
There is separate advice for parents of summer-born children.
It sets out information about requests to delay the admission of summer-born children to reception.
You should read it in conjunction with the School Admissions Code.
Reports on the findings of surveys of local authorities and parents of summer-born children who have asked to delay their child’s admission to reception are available:
Updates to this page
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We have made an update to the 'Handling requests for admission out of normal age group' section to clarify that secondary schools should ensure that parents receive a response to a request for admission out of the normal age group before secondary national offer day (and not when the normal admissions round closes).
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First published.