article_snippet: A father has claimed a lack of common sense is preventing A father twin boys from starting school a year later because his twin boys were born in late August.
article_snippet: Summer-born children can wait until the September after Summer-born children fifth birthday if Summer-born children parents feel their parents need more time to develop.
article_snippet: And it suggests delaying the start of school by 12 months should be 'no barrier' to a child then starting in reception class.
article_snippet: This policy, updated last spring, is designed to help children with birthdays between April 1 and August 31.
article_snippet: This is because because experts believe experts are more likely to struggle academically if experts start school after just turning four.
article_snippet: The Department for Education guidance says: ‘An increasing number of cases have come to the attention of the department and ministers in which parents, local authorities and admissions authorities have struggled to agree on the year group in which it is most appropriate for a summer-born child to start school. '
article_snippet: New government guidelines was introduced after research showed summer born children were more likely to struggle at school, do worse in exams and have less chance of getting into university.
article_snippet: Mr Gibb added: 'If a child is very immature for their age and their are born in those summer months, and it's the very strongly held view of the parents that the child should start school in the following September, which is when the law says the parents should start, I think admissions authorities should be flexible and should do what's in the best interests of the childthe child.'
article_snippet: But Michelle Melson, of the Summer Born Campaign, claimed that problems in arranging different school start times have worsened .
article_snippet: She added that summer-born babies who do start school after they are five are starting at compulsory starting age and should not miss out on reception by being placed straight into Year 1. '