This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Support families, by tackling the issue of inflated out-of-term holiday prices.
The cost of taking a holiday out-of-term time is considerably more expensive than during the school-term itself.
Our government insists that education is vital to a child's development, but is happy to allow travel companies to profit by utilising this requirement to their financial advantage.
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Children can be taken away on school-organised holidays, during term time; so why can parents not do then same?
The government needs to understand that parents take their children out of school for holidays not because they want too; it's because they cannot afford the drastically increased costs of out-of-term breaks.
Support should be provided because of this; by either authorising a reasonable absence percentage, or preventing travel companies from abusing the system for their own profits.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/130036
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129698
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