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Reduce critical worker childcare criteria to keep schools safe in lockdown

Submitted on Tuesday 5th January 2021

Rejected on Tuesday 12th January 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Reduce critical worker childcare criteria to keep schools safe in lockdown

Petition Details

Reduce the number of critical worker roles to be only critical and state that both parents must be key workers or a single parent from a single parent household. Reduce the eligibility for school to be used as childcare unnecessarily and protect school staff by keeping numbers to absolute minimum

Additional Information

Primary schools have been overwhelmed by critical workers requesting childcare when many are working at home or sending their children when they are on days off. The school has no right to refuse because the government hasn't stated strict criteria. Some schools are running over 40% capacity in comparison to very small percentage in first lockdown. Staff so not feel safe and many stated in union letters they would work only at a 10% capacity.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you want the Government to reduce the number of children entitled to attend school, but it's not clear exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. Your petition says entitlements should be limited to critical roles, but it is not clear which roles you want to be removed from the current list.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

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