This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Petition to stop local councils from using schools as polling stations
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Please sign to ask the Government to force Local and Borough Councils to stop using schools as locations for Polling Stations
Why should an important educational facility be used as a Polling Station?
Children miss out unnecessarily on a days education, parents have to take time off work,often unpaid time off or are forced to pay for childcare. Businesses and industries lose thousands of working hours through lost productivity.
The Government needs to force Local Councils to seek a more appropriate location (eg. boost local trade by using local shops, pubs etc) and ban the use of schools as Polling Stations
Closing a whole school is unnecessary for all that is essentially needed (a small space to locate a desk for the voting administrators and a booth to cast residents votes).
Educational standards in the UK are ranked very low, it's pointless closing a whole school and denying children a days eduction when they already have enough time off.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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Please see the below petition:
Petition Title: Do not Close Schools for Polling Days
Created by: Simon Laker
Closing: 23/11/2014
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