Submitted by Alex Nurton on Friday 19th December 2025
Published on Wednesday 11th February 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 11th August 2026
Current Signatures: 1,109
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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active ~ AI ~ Biased ~ Citizens ~ Confident ~ Delivering ~ democracy ~ Education ~ Ensure ~ Essential ~ fund ~ Impartiality ~ Lessons ~ Media ~ Parliament ~ Politics ~ Quality ~ Schools ~ Secondary ~ Secondary schools ~ skills ~ society ~ Teachers ~ teaching ~ The Proposal ~ Voting ~ voting age ~ Youth
Fund high-quality, non-partisan political and citizenship teaching resources
Youth Parliament UK urges the Government to invest in high-quality, non-partisan lesson resources that any teacher can use. It’s vital students are taught the skills for informed and active participation in society, but too often teachers don’t have the support, leaving students without consistency.
This would help teachers feel more confident delivering these topics and ensure that lessons on democracy, government, citizens’ rights and responsibilities, media literacy, and more, are taught to a high and impartial standard in all secondary schools across the UK. With the proposal to lower the voting age, and in an age of AI and algorithms, it is essential we make high-quality, non-biased political and citizenship education a right, not a lottery.
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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