Allow schools that have become academies to return to Local Authority governance

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Popularity

This petition has 3,183 signatures in total, with signatories from 567 constituencies. That makes it the 3,820th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 45% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 49% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 218 - Norwich South
• 84 - Norwich North
• 53 - South Norfolk
• 51 - Great Yarmouth
• 35 - Broadland
• 28 - Nottingham East
• 27 - Mid Norfolk
• 25 - Waveney
• 22 - North Norfolk
• 22 - Eltham
• 21 - Epping Forest
• 21 - Sutton Coldfield
• 21 - St Austell and Newquay
• 20 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 19 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 19 - Isle of Wight
• 18 - North West Norfolk
• 17 - Basingstoke
• 17 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 16 - Tunbridge Wells
• 16 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 16 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 15 - Leeds West
• 15 - Hastings and Rye
• 15 - Truro and Falmouth
• 15 - City of Chester
• 14 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 14 - Sherwood
• 14 - Rushcliffe
• 14 - Loughborough
• 14 - Gateshead
• 13 - Broxtowe
• 13 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 13 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 13 - Gedling
• 13 - Tynemouth
• 13 - Bristol West
• 12 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 12 - South West Norfolk
• 12 - Colchester
• 12 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 12 - Tottenham
• 12 - Wansbeck
• 11 - Enfield North
• 11 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 11 - Bristol East
• 11 - Nottingham North
• 11 - York Central
• 11 - Peterborough
• 11 - Suffolk Coastal
• 11 - West Suffolk
• 11 - Wells
• 10 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 10 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 10 - West Ham
• 10 - St Ives
• 10 - Streatham
• 10 - Derbyshire Dales
• 10 - Broxbourne
• 10 - Grantham and Stamford
• 10 - Leeds North East
• 10 - Leicester South
• 10 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 9 - South East Cornwall
• 9 - Hove
• 9 - Sutton and Cheam
• 9 - Enfield, Southgate
• 9 - City of Durham
• 9 - Ilford North
• 9 - Stretford and Urmston
• 9 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 9 - Sheffield Central
• 9 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 9 - Totnes
• 9 - Ludlow
• 9 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 9 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 8 - Reading East
• 8 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 8 - Charnwood
• 8 - Leeds East
• 8 - Skipton and Ripon
• 8 - Canterbury
• 8 - Leeds North West
• 8 - East Ham
• 8 - Arundel and South Downs
• 8 - Huntingdon
• 8 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 8 - Wolverhampton South West
• 8 - South West Devon
• 8 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 8 - Stroud
• 8 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 8 - Exeter
• 8 - Harborough
• 7 - Warwick and Leamington
• 7 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 7 - Chesterfield
• 7 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 7 - Mid Sussex
• 7 - East Hampshire
• 7 - Hertford and Stortford
• 7 - Chipping Barnet
• 7 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 7 - Easington
• 7 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 7 - Oxford East
• 7 - Wallasey
• 7 - Ribble Valley
• 7 - Stone
• 7 - South Dorset
• 7 - Ipswich
• 7 - North West Durham
• 7 - Southport
• 7 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 7 - South Thanet
• 7 - South West Hertfordshire
• 7 - Hemsworth
• 7 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 7 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 7 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 7 - South Cambridgeshire
• 7 - Southampton, Test
• 7 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 7 - Islington North
• 7 - Edmonton
• 7 - Selby and Ainsty
• 7 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 7 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 7 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 7 - Camborne and Redruth
• 7 - Southampton, Itchen
• 6 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 6 - Hammersmith
• 6 - Milton Keynes North
• 6 - Barking
• 6 - Kingswood
• 6 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 6 - Hemel Hempstead
• 6 - Lewisham East
• 6 - Jarrow
• 6 - Leigh
• 6 - Huddersfield
• 6 - Fareham
• 6 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 6 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 6 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 6 - Pendle
• 6 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 6 - Bedford
• 6 - Portsmouth South
• 6 - Pudsey
• 6 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 6 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 6 - Stourbridge
• 6 - Bristol North West
• 6 - Bristol South
• 6 - Cardiff West
• 6 - Shipley
• 6 - Solihull
• 6 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 6 - Bury St Edmunds
• 6 - Buckingham
• 6 - Nuneaton
• 6 - Bath
• 6 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 6 - North East Somerset
• 6 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 6 - Stockton North
• 6 - North Tyneside
• 6 - North East Hampshire
• 6 - Lichfield
• 6 - Northampton North
• 6 - Bootle
• 6 - Wealden
• 6 - Bromsgrove
• 6 - Blaydon
• 5 - Wimbledon
• 5 - Swansea West
• 5 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 5 - Wyre Forest
• 5 - Wakefield
• 5 - Winchester
• 5 - Wycombe
• 5 - Stockport
• 5 - Henley
• 5 - Stafford
• 5 - South West Wiltshire
• 5 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 5 - South Suffolk
• 5 - Warley
• 5 - Telford
• 5 - New Forest East
• 5 - West Dorset
• 5 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 5 - Luton South
• 5 - Meon Valley
• 5 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 5 - Weaver Vale
• 5 - Reading West
• 5 - Milton Keynes South
• 5 - Leicester West
• 5 - Walthamstow
• 5 - West Lancashire
• 5 - Wigan
• 5 - Somerton and Frome
• 5 - Sheffield South East
• 5 - Twickenham
• 5 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 5 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 5 - Rochford and Southend East
• 5 - Vauxhall
• 5 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 5 - North Durham
• 5 - East Yorkshire
• 5 - Central Devon
• 5 - Cambridge
• 5 - Batley and Spen
• 5 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 5 - Braintree
• 5 - Bradford South
• 5 - Bracknell
• 5 - Ealing North
• 5 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 5 - Blackburn
• 5 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 5 - Garston and Halewood
• 5 - Daventry
• 5 - Bury South
• 5 - Clwyd West
• 5 - Colne Valley
• 5 - Chesham and Amersham
• 4 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 4 - Lewes
• 4 - Nottingham South
• 4 - South West Surrey
• 4 - Orpington
• 4 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 4 - St Helens North
• 4 - East Devon
• 4 - Stockton South
• 4 - Congleton
• 4 - Croydon South
• 4 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Knowsley
• 4 - Burton
• 4 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 4 - Liverpool, Walton
• 4 - Northampton South
• 4 - Rugby
• 4 - Rutland and Melton
• 4 - Mole Valley
• 4 - Newton Abbot
• 4 - Sefton Central
• 4 - Newark
• 4 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 4 - Dewsbury
• 4 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 4 - Mid Derbyshire
• 4 - Don Valley
• 4 - Manchester Central
• 4 - Macclesfield
• 4 - Southend West
• 4 - Louth and Horncastle
• 4 - Bolsover
• 4 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 4 - Erewash
• 4 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 4 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 4 - Beckenham
• 4 - Feltham and Heston
• 4 - Harwich and North Essex
• 4 - Wokingham
• 4 - Woking
• 4 - Harlow
• 4 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 4 - Walsall South
• 4 - Forest of Dean
• 4 - High Peak
• 4 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 4 - Thornbury and Yate
• 4 - Wyre and Preston North
• 4 - The Wrekin
• 4 - Thirsk and Malton
• 4 - The Cotswolds
• 4 - Tooting
• 4 - Hexham
• 4 - Keighley
• 4 - Barrow and Furness
• 4 - Hendon
• 4 - Bexhill and Battle
• 4 - Gainsborough
• 4 - Hazel Grove
• 3 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 3 - Wellingborough
• 3 - Cheltenham
• 3 - Saffron Walden
• 3 - Romford
• 3 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 3 - Banbury
• 3 - Cheadle
• 3 - Aylesbury
• 3 - Chichester
• 3 - Coventry South
• 3 - North Wiltshire
• 3 - North Warwickshire
• 3 - Coventry North East
• 3 - Copeland
• 3 - Worcester
• 3 - Wolverhampton South East
• 3 - Wirral West
• 3 - Clwyd South
• 3 - Sedgefield
• 3 - Penrith and The Border
• 3 - Christchurch
• 3 - Poole
• 3 - Worthing West
• 3 - Bassetlaw
• 3 - Barnsley Central
• 3 - Brent Central
• 3 - South Ribble
• 3 - South Staffordshire
• 3 - South Swindon
• 3 - Bradford West
• 3 - Beverley and Holderness
• 3 - Bournemouth West
• 3 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 3 - York Outer
• 3 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 3 - Taunton Deane
• 3 - Tatton
• 3 - Battersea
• 3 - South Leicestershire
• 3 - Brigg and Goole
• 3 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 3 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 3 - Cardiff North
• 3 - Cardiff Central
• 3 - Warrington South
• 3 - Stevenage
• 3 - Warrington North
• 3 - Slough
• 3 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 3 - Caerphilly
• 3 - Croydon North
• 3 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 3 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 3 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 3 - Doncaster North
• 3 - Eastbourne
• 3 - Leicester East
• 3 - Hartlepool
• 3 - Fylde
• 3 - Heywood and Middleton
• 3 - Dartford
• 3 - Halton
• 3 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 3 - Eastleigh
• 3 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 3 - Lincoln
• 3 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 3 - Mansfield
• 3 - Manchester, Withington
• 3 - Manchester, Gorton
• 3 - Devizes
• 3 - Derby South
• 3 - Dover
• 3 - Luton North
• 3 - Dudley South
• 3 - Derby North
• 3 - Harrow East
• 3 - Gravesham
• 3 - Great Grimsby
• 3 - Guildford
• 3 - North East Derbyshire
• 3 - North East Hertfordshire
• 3 - Epsom and Ewell
• 3 - Middlesbrough
• 3 - North Cornwall
• 3 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 3 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 2 - Watford
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 2 - South Northamptonshire
• 2 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 2 - South Shields
• 2 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 2 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 2 - Ashford
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - Meriden
• 2 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 2 - Calder Valley
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - Ilford South
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - Bury North
• 2 - Westminster North
• 2 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 2 - Harrow West
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Blyth Valley
• 2 - Blaenau Gwent
• 2 - Kensington
• 2 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 2 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 2 - Leeds Central
• 2 - Bishop Auckland
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 2 - Eddisbury
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - Bolton West
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 2 - Bolton South East
• 2 - Havant
• 2 - Barnsley East
• 2 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 2 - St Albans
• 2 - Islwyn
• 2 - Edinburgh South West
• 2 - Bosworth
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 2 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - Redcar
• 2 - North East Bedfordshire
• 2 - Corby
• 2 - Rhondda
• 2 - Richmond Park
• 2 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 2 - Yeovil
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - Rochester and Strood
• 2 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 2 - North Devon
• 2 - Neath
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 2 - Darlington
• 2 - Bradford East
• 2 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 2 - Orkney and Shetland
• 2 - Halifax
• 2 - North Thanet
• 2 - Chorley
• 2 - Chippenham
• 2 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 2 - Chelmsford
• 2 - Newbury
• 2 - Aberavon
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 2 - Witney
• 2 - Mitcham and Morden
• 2 - Ceredigion
• 2 - Castle Point
• 2 - Mid Worcestershire
• 2 - Doncaster Central
• 2 - Carlisle
• 2 - Cannock Chase
• 2 - Monmouth
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Angus
• 2 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 2 - Morley and Outwood
• 2 - North Herefordshire
• 2 - Amber Valley
• 2 - Montgomeryshire
• 2 - Rotherham
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Belfast South
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Blackley and Broughton
• 1 - Belfast West
• 1 - Aldershot
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Windsor
• 1 - Alyn and Deeside
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - West Bromwich West
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - Gloucester
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Wolverhampton North East
• 1 - Gower
• 1 - Basildon and Billericay
• 1 - Gosport
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Witham
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Putney
• 1 - Denton and Reddish
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 1 - Rochdale
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - Rother Valley
• 1 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - Salford and Eccles
• 1 - Scunthorpe
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Pontypridd
• 1 - North West Hampshire
• 1 - North West Leicestershire
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Cynon Valley
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - Newport East
• 1 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 1 - Blackpool South
• 1 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 1 - East Lothian
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Swansea East
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 1 - Torridge and West Devon
• 1 - Birkenhead
• 1 - East Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - South Down
• 1 - Burnley
• 1 - Dudley North
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Newport West
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Dundee West
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Edinburgh West

Signatures by Region

• 785 - East of England
• 426 - London
• 374 - South East
• 279 - North West
• 267 - South West
• 258 - East Midlands
• 254 - West Midlands
• 248 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 152 - North East
• 66 - Wales
• 25 - Scotland
• 4 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 3,170 - United Kingdom
• 3 - Spain
• 2 - Austria
• 2 - United States
• 1 - Switzerland
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Luxembourg
• 1 - Norway
• 1 - Guernsey