Rejected petition Address the Critical worker list to keep school staff safe during lockdown.

Schools are not shut. School staff are currently in schools risking their lives with up to 50% of the pupils still attending as they are children of "Critical workers". This can now be coffee shop and garden center employees and ice cream drivers. They are not essential when thousands are dying.

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The Critical worker list needs to be updated with stricter guidance. More closures need to happen e.g. Coffee shops, Garden centers. Without this happening teachers will die and life will not return as we once knew it for the foreseeable.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We understand you would like the critical worker list to be made stricter but it's not clear which groups, if any, that you wish to be removed from the list.

You could start a petition calling for a specified group or groups to be removed from the critical worker list, if that is something you'd like to happen.

In the meantime, given your concerns about schools remaining open, you may wish to sign these petitions:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/554316
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550846
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/566867

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/

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Date submitted 7 January 2021
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