Petition Designate certain careers as a 'Public Service Vocation' with specific benefits.

Doctors, nurses, teachers, the military, social workers and prison officers work, primarily, to provide and care for others and are not driven by financial rewards. This should be recognized by designating certain jobs as a 'Public Service Vocation' with enhanced benefits.

More details

Those who in the caring professions work selflessly in the community in schools, hospitals, prisons and in the armed forces. As they are not working for their own benefit and cannot, in the majority of cases, enhance their own pay packet by working any harder, they deserve special status in the tax system. They also deserve an entitlement to extended breaks in their working lives for rest and professional development so that they do not get 'burnt out' but enjoy long and fruitful careers.

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

7 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 7 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 3 May 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.