Rejected petition Give childcare allowance to parents returning to work after maternity leave

Parents who are returning back to work after maternity leave get little or no help with childcare costs.

I’ve created this petition to ask the government to please consider helping working parents with childcare cost eg vouchers or an allowance

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the UK Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand you would like more support for parents returning to work but we aren't sure exactly what support you would like to be given.

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Alternatively you could start a new petition setting out clearly what help you would like given to working parents.

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Date submitted 17 October 2018
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