Rejected petition Bring forward school summer holidays to aid the response to COVID19.

In order to prevent the continued spread of COVID19 we believe that schools should not return on the 1st of June and that we should bring forward the summer holidays to begin in mid June until the end of July. Allowing isolation without affecting the education of our students

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Change the summer holidays of schools in England and prevent further death of students, staff and their families. This would allow us more time to deal with the current crisis without further impact on schooling for our children

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

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

Decisions about school term dates are a matter for the governing bodies of individual schools, not the Government or Parliament.

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

Delay the reopening of schools to September: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318206

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 find 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 15 May 2020
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