Rejected petition: End automatic school attendance fines and allow parental discretion
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We want automatic fines for short school absences to stop. Parents should have discretion for family time or reasonable absences. Attendance rules should be flexible, fair, and only penalise absences that harm a child’s education.
Parents are being fined even when acting responsibly. The system is too rigid, adds financial pressure, and does not reflect real family life. Parents should be trusted to make decisions about their children. A fairer system would allow flexibility and only target harmful absences.
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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We already have a petition open on this subject which you may wish to sign:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/761127
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.