Submitted on Wednesday 1st April 2020
Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Make it illegal for childcare providers to charge during Covid19 confinement.
Families should not be pushed into unnecessary hardship by having to pay fees for nurseries that are closed, while worried about their own jobs.
Childcare providers, as other businesses, will be provided with financial support from the central government, they do not have a reason to charge parents (often struggling financially) "for nothing". No other business charges it's customers during closure.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The refund of childcare fees for any period of closure is a matter for individual childcare providers, not the Government or Parliament.
You could start a petition calling on the Government to set up a fund to reimburse people who have lost money because of the closure of nurseries due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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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.
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