Primary One Deferral - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description: Primary One Deferral
FOI Number: 15267
Date Received: 26/05/2021
Type of Request: FOI
Request or Question: I would like to know how many applications the council received for primary one deferral from 2011-2021 for children who had already turned 5 by the school start date in Aug and therefore would not have had an automatic legal right to defer their primary one start.
Response: session DOB Out of scope Agreed13/14 1/9/08 -28/2/09 <5 <514/15 1/9/09 -28/2/10 15/16 1/9/10 -28/2/11 16/17 1/9/11 -28/2/12 <5 <517/18 1/9/12 -28/2/13 <5 <5
18/19 1/9/13-28/2/14
19/20 1/9/14 -28/2/15 <5 <5
20/21 12/8/15 - 29/2/16 <5 <5

We have taken the decision not to release information where the numbers are 5 or below. This is because by releasing this information broken down by school and year could potentially identify individuals. Therefore, we are relying on section 38(1)(b) of FOI(S)A 2002