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Admission to reception: deferring entry
Can parents defer their child's entry to reception? We explain that parents have the right to defer entry to reception until their child is five years old. We look at how this affects a child's entitlement to free early education and discuss admission outside the normal year group.
- Admission appeals
- Admission appeals statements
- Admission application forms
- Admission to reception: can pupils start part-time?
- Challenging the placement of a pupil with SEN
- How to set your school admission arrangements
- In-year admissions: refusing or delaying a place
- Placing pupils in older or younger year groups
- School admissions: outcome letters for parents
- Sixth-form admissions: rules and guidance
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