Michael Gove rewrites school rules to scrap right for four-year-olds to have full-time primary places

Education secretary Michael Gove visits a primary school in London in June this year. Photograph: Getty ImagesMichael Gove, the education secretary, has scrapped the automatic right for four-year-olds to be given a full-time place in school. Rules introduced by Labour in 2009 have been rewritten to remove an explicit guarantee.In what could become a landmark case, one mother is considering legal action against the Department for Education after her daughter was denied a full-time place at her

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