Rejected petition Teachers shouldn’t work without PPE due many children being asymptomatic

The government are telling teachers that they’re advised not to wear PPE or face masks in schools on return, however they should in public and on public transport. This needs reviewed because children are asymptomatic in many cases

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Parliament should provide better guidance for keeping teachers safe and should advise schools to protect their teachers.

More guidance on secondary schools where children cannot have a single teacher all day due to the vast amount of different subjects they study.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Guidance on Covid-19 and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is a matter for Public Health England, and not the Government or Parliament.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Give All Schools Protective Equipment to help protect staff from the Coronavirus: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306347

Make COVID19 testing available to teaching staff caring for pupils: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305423

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

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/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 12 May 2020
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