Submitted on Sunday 29th March 2020
Rejected on Thursday 14th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Support for working parents during COVID-19 epidemic and school/nursery closure
Government must support full-time working parents who are working from home, and also provide full-time childcare and education. Government must introduce reduced working hours per day, and cover for the rest of the hours, or extra paid holidays to household with young children.
During COVID-19 epidemic and following school/nursery closure, households who have both parents working from home, or households which are single parent families and the parent is working from home, are struggling and are under massive pressure to balance between delivering their job as normal from home, while should also provide home education and spend time for childcare. This will lead to poor career performance, extended working hours and exceeded stress level with impact on mental health.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
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 these petitions calling for the same action:
Fund paid parental leave for all employed parents of school aged children: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308376
Help for working parents with <5yo who can't work remotely as caring for them: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309305
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: 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: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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