Rejected petition Allow all schools in the UK to get Service Pupil Premium.

Service Pupil Premium is to support British Armed Forces children at school, but SPP only applies to schools in England. The department of education want to help support military children, but only if they are in an English school. This is discrimination and should be available in all UK schools.

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The Department for Education introduced the Service Pupil Premium (SPP) in April 2011 in recognition of the specific challenges children from service families face and as part of the commitment to delivering the armed forces covenant. State schools, academies and free schools in England, which have children of service families can receive the SPP funding. It is designed to assist the school in providing the additional support that these children may need and is currently worth £300 per child.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

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

The Service Pupil Premium is a Department for Education scheme and therefore applies in England only.

There are different schemes in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It would be a decision for the devolved administrations to change the way they support service pupils.

The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly have there own e-petitions systems. You can find out more here:

http://www.parliament.scot/gettinginvolved/petitions/

https://www.assembly.wales/en/gethome/e-petitions/Pages/e-petitions.aspx

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

Date submitted 12 February 2019
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