Petition Ensure all schools offer reception children a full time education from September

Every September many schools accept reception children for only part of a day for up to 6 weeks, causing enormous difficulties for many parents. Working parents have to take leave, unpaid leave in the case of self-employed parents, or pay huge childcare costs while the phased start is in place

More details

There is little awareness of a ruling by the Schools Adjudicator in 2013 who said, in reference to phased starts, “It is not permissible in my view for a school to deny a child a term of full-time education. The school has a duty to provide a full-time place from September and cannot refuse to do so.”

The latest school admissions code supports this, stating that a local authority must make clear that children are entitled to a full-time place in the Sept following their fourth birthday.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

31 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 31 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 24 March 2019
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.