Rejected petition: Increase funding, ensure fair pay and prioritise early years education.
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We urge the government to increase early years funding to reflect real costs, ensure competitive pay for staff, reduce red tape, and recognise early years as a vital public service. Introduce a long-term funding strategy, emergency support to prevent closures, and tax relief for providers.
Early years education is the foundation of children’s development, yet the sector is collapsing due to chronic underfunding. Rising costs for wages, utilities, and resources far exceed inadequate funding increases. Staff are underpaid, burning out, and leaving, leading to shortages and closures. Without urgent action, families will lose childcare, and children will miss out on vital care and education. We need proper funding, fair pay, and recognition of early years as an essential public service.
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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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Increase funding for Early years providers.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701693We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.