Rejected petition Bring school holidays forward, return children to school for autumn term in July

Do not make children return to school on the 1/6/20. Bring the school holidays forward to start from 1/6/20. Re start schools for the autumn term on the 13/7/20.

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This will allow a further six weeks for the R number to reduce. Parents will not be responsible for teaching their children (so those children who aren’t being taught by parents will not loose out). It will also mean there will be less disruption caused by schools starting, stopping and then starting again.

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:

Open schools during the summer holidays: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305213

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 20 May 2020
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