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Give children 5 school days of "bookable" leave per academic year

Submitted by Michael Higgins on Sunday 11th January 2026

Published on Wednesday 11th February 2026

Current status: Open

Open until: Tuesday 11th August 2026

Current Signatures: 370
(count is updated approximately hourly)

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Affordable ~ Benefits ~ Bond ~ Build ~ Busy ~ Children ~ Enable ~ Extend ~ Families ~ Guardian ~ Healthy ~ Holidays ~ local ~ Lovely ~ Memorial ~ Price ~ Profiteering ~ Raise ~ school day ~ school holidays ~ Schools ~ society ~ Spending ~ Trips

Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 370 signatures in total, with signatories from 108 constituencies. That makes it the 496th most popular open petition, and the 12,386th most popular of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 21% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of -9% (very low).

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Notes on geography

Signatures by constituency and region don't necessarily add up to the total number of signatures. That's because the petitions system doesn't validate postcodes, and some people mistype them. And without a valid postcode, a signature cannot be allocated to any particular place.

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