Allow school absences due to diagnosed mental health issues to be ‘authorised’

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Popularity

This petition has 501 signatures in total, with signatories from 273 constituencies. That makes it the 9,425th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 27% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 36% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 28 - Hertford and Stortford
• 22 - Saffron Walden
• 10 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 9 - Norwich South
• 8 - Kingswood
• 6 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 6 - Thornbury and Yate
• 5 - Dartford
• 5 - South Norfolk
• 4 - Broxbourne
• 4 - Bristol East
• 4 - Esher and Walton
• 4 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Richmond Park
• 4 - Hertsmere
• 4 - Bath
• 4 - Bedford
• 4 - York Central
• 4 - Stevenage
• 4 - South Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Sedgefield
• 3 - Cambridge
• 3 - Derby South
• 3 - West Bromwich West
• 3 - Enfield, Southgate
• 3 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - South Northamptonshire
• 3 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 3 - South Leicestershire
• 3 - South West Bedfordshire
• 3 - Milton Keynes South
• 3 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Ipswich
• 3 - Beaconsfield
• 3 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 3 - Broadland
• 3 - Hartlepool
• 3 - Southport
• 3 - Nottingham North
• 3 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 3 - Southend West
• 2 - Harlow
• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - Great Yarmouth
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - Mitcham and Morden
• 2 - Gainsborough
• 2 - South Dorset
• 2 - Isle of Wight
• 2 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 2 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 2 - Halifax
• 2 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Tunbridge Wells
• 2 - Hendon
• 2 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 2 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 2 - Wealden
• 2 - High Peak
• 2 - Wirral South
• 2 - Amber Valley
• 2 - North Norfolk
• 2 - North Thanet
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 2 - Braintree
• 2 - North Wiltshire
• 2 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 2 - Nottingham East
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Bournemouth East
• 2 - Bosworth
• 2 - Nottingham South
• 2 - Oxford East
• 2 - Penrith and The Border
• 2 - Bishop Auckland
• 2 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Ashford
• 2 - Glasgow North West
• 2 - Canterbury
• 2 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 2 - New Forest East
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 2 - Wolverhampton South East
• 2 - Wokingham
• 2 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 2 - North Dorset
• 2 - Coventry South
• 2 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - North East Bedfordshire
• 2 - Witham
• 2 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 2 - Chelmsford
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Rugby
• 1 - Rochester and Strood
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - Salisbury
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - Solihull
• 1 - Southampton, Itchen
• 1 - Southampton, Test
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Inverclyde
• 1 - Glenrothes
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Edinburgh East
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - Stirling
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Newport West
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Belfast East
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Torridge and West Devon
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - The Wrekin
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Suffolk Coastal
• 1 - Stretford and Urmston
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Walsall South
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - Woking
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - West Suffolk
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 1 - Warley
• 1 - Wantage
• 1 - Stockton South
• 1 - Epping Forest
• 1 - Derby North
• 1 - Daventry
• 1 - Croydon North
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Coventry North East
• 1 - Corby
• 1 - Colchester
• 1 - Cleethorpes
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - City of Durham
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - Devizes
• 1 - Don Valley
• 1 - Eltham
• 1 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - Eddisbury
• 1 - Eastleigh
• 1 - Aldershot
• 1 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Dudley North
• 1 - Dover
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Chippenham
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Bournemouth West
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Bolton North East
• 1 - Bolsover
• 1 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 1 - Battersea
• 1 - Bassetlaw
• 1 - Basingstoke
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Bradford West
• 1 - Brent North
• 1 - Cheltenham
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Cannock Chase
• 1 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 1 - Calder Valley
• 1 - Bury South
• 1 - Bromsgrove
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 1 - Ashfield
• 1 - Ribble Valley
• 1 - New Forest West
• 1 - Morley and Outwood
• 1 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Mid Worcestershire
• 1 - Mid Sussex
• 1 - Mid Norfolk
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Manchester Central
• 1 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 1 - North Devon
• 1 - Reading West
• 1 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Poole
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 1 - North West Hampshire
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - North East Hertfordshire
• 1 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - North Durham
• 1 - Maidenhead
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Guildford
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Grantham and Stamford
• 1 - Gloucester
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Fylde
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Erewash
• 1 - Havant
• 1 - Hemel Hempstead
• 1 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Leeds West
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Islington North
• 1 - Hove
• 1 - Epsom and Ewell

Signatures by Region

• 147 - East of England
• 85 - South East
• 57 - South West
• 38 - East Midlands
• 35 - London
• 32 - West Midlands
• 25 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 24 - North West
• 18 - Scotland
• 16 - Wales
• 16 - North East
• 1 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 501 - United Kingdom