Submitted on Wednesday 28th January 2026
Rejected on Thursday 5th March 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Allow part-time teachers to have set working patterns
Change the part-time contracts/flexible working requests for teachers to allow for set day working requests. For example, 3 days as opposed to the current 0.6 offering.
Part-time contracts in teaching disproportionately affect women, specifically working mothers returning from maternity leave. Current part-time requests are for a reduction in hours as opposed to days. This means that teaching staff are being expected to work reduced hours but stretched over the full week, incurring extra costs for childcare and time travelling, without the pay. Allowing teachers to put in flexible working requests for a specific amount of days would improve retention.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about flexible working arrangements are a matter for individual schools, not the UK Government or Parliament. Teachers are already entitled to request flexible working arrangements or different working patterns, and it is the responsibility of individual schools to consider these requests and decide whether to allow them or not.
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