Submitted on Tuesday 18th May 2021
Rejected on Monday 24th May 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Let people have days off school for mental health.
If this gets the amount of votes it needs, we need mental health to be a valid reason to have a day off school. You need to check with the child's parents to make sure they're not faking though.
I want the government or parliament to do this because lots of people's mental health is affected by being forced to go to school, me included.
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
It is already possible for children to be legitimately absent from school because of a mental health condition, if this means they are not well enough to go to school. This should be reported to the school in the same way as any other absence.
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Introduce a ‘mental health day’ as a valid reason to be absent from school: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/583592
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