P-5-832 To Amend the School Admissions Code Relating to Summer-Born Children, Correspondence – Ceredigion Council to Chair, 21/12/18

• details of your authority’s policy in relation to requests for a deferral of school admission

See attached Ceredigion’s School Admission Policy, point 4.2 and Ceredigion’s SEN Strategy, Policy and Procedures, page 46.

• any specific policy you operate in relation to requests for deferrals for summer-born children (those born between 1 April and 31 August)

no specific policy

For each of the past 3 years:

•  the number of requests for deferral of school admission received

2016 – 2 formal requests

2017 – 3 formal requests

2018 – 3 formal requests

• the number of requests that were granted or rejected

All requests were rejected for 2016, 2017 and 2018

• the number of requests for deferral of school admission for the reason that a child was ‘summer-born’ (as defined above) or not ready to start fulltime school due to the date of their birth

2016 - 2

2017 – 3

2018 - 3

• the number of these requests that were granted or rejected

All requests were rejected for 2016, 2017 and 2018

• for any requests granted, whether those children were subsequently admitted within or outside of their normal age group

None were granted.