The government has abandoned plans to legislate to improve admissions arrangements for summer-born pupils, something it has promised to do for seven years.
Former schools minister Nick Gibb pledged in 2015 to legislate to allow children born between April and August to automatically be admitted to reception at the age of five if that is what their parents want.
At the moment, schools and councils can decide whether to admit them in reception or start them in year 1, leading to what campaigners have described as a “postcode lottery”.
