Submitted by Jon Haworth on Wednesday 24th April 2024
Published on Tuesday 7th May 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Thursday 7th November 2024
Current Signatures: 77
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Stop fines and criminal charges for taking children on holiday in term time
The fines system and threats of criminal proceedings should be abolished. We believe the working class are being penalised for enriching their children's lives. We don't think fines affect the middle/upper class as much.
We believe working class families are being discriminated against and treated like criminals for creating essential bonds and memories by taking their children on holiday. It may be that school holiday trips are too costly, or it might be that set holidays prevent families from taking trips within the school holidays. We believe this is discrimination, no other way to put it.
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