Petition Remove right of teachers to confiscate phones and view their content

Current statutory guidance for teachers and schools should be changed to stop students’ electronic devices, including phones, being confiscated and their contents searched and viewed. Phones are students’ property that teachers shouldn’t take or look through.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

16 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 16 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 28 November 2021
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