This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Keep Primary School children SAFE at home!
Send secondary school children part time to school. Divide classes in half and have half in the morning and the other in the afternoon. They are older, can socially distance and are actually taking important exams.
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Because as a parent of 2 primary school children and an EYFS educator, I know that sending the young ones is just a recipe for disaster!
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
The exact arrangements for resuming teaching, including how to maintain social distancing, are operational decisions for individual schools, and not a matter for the Government or House of Commons.
You may wish to sign some of these petitions, calling for similar actions:
Keep schools closed until Covid 19 is no longer a threat: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/316404
Delay the reopening of schools to September: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318206
Keep schools closed in the UK until an effective Cov-19 vaccine is available: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/319292
Shut schools completely to stop putting teachers, TAs and pupils at risk: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308013
No prosecution for parents that remove child from school during a pandemic: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300399
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https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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