Submitted by Dr Zoe Raw on Friday 3rd November 2023
Published on Monday 27th November 2023
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 27th May 2024
Current Signatures: 26
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Extend school day to 5.30pm, with two hours of PE from 3.30-5.30pm
Extend school hours to 5.30pm, with 2hrs of physical education at 3.30pm. This should help working parents remain in full-time work, and could help tackle obesity and safeguard children's mental health. Costs may be offset by keeping more parents in work (paying taxes and not claiming benefits).
I urge the Government to act because extending school hours to 5:30 pm should support working parents, better allowing full-time employment while mitigating childcare costs. This should also combat child obesity through extra physical activity, potentially yielding long-term health benefits and reducing NHS burdens. The potential increased tax revenue and reduced benefit dependency from working parents should help offset the costs, creating a potentially self-funding model that reinforces both family stability and economic growth.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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