This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Allow parents to remove children from school for holiday for max 2 weeks a year.
To take this burden away from schools and courts but allow parents to remove children for either a two week holiday or two one week holidays per year but not directly near exam time. Also to reduce the cost of holidays but also improve tourism throughout the year
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Save the courts and councils time enforcing something they clearly are having trouble doing and wasting tax payers money fighting tax payers
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/165651
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