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Stop fining parents for family holidays during term time

Submitted on Friday 24th January 2025

Rejected on Tuesday 18th March 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Stop fining parents for family holidays during term time

Petition Details

Stop fining parents who take their children out of school for family holidays

Additional Information

Families struggle with the cost of holidays during school holidays- family time is extremely important in building confident happy children with strong family relationships and preventing parents from going on holiday with their children for a week when they can financially afford to do so is criminal so these fines should be stopped


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This petition was rejected

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.

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Allow parents to take their children out of school for up to 10 days fine free:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700047

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