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Paper: School starting age: European policy and recent ...

Martin Woodhead points out that there was very little parliamentary debate on this issue at the time, although some MPs clearly favoured six or even seven as the school starting age (Woodhead, 1989). Reasons put forward in support of setting the school starting age at five were related to child protection (i.e. protection from exploitation

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