Submitted by Amy Graham on Tuesday 10th February 2026
Published on Monday 23rd March 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Wednesday 23rd September 2026
Current Signatures: 26
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Benefits ~ Child ~ childcare ~ childcare costs ~ childcare funding ~ Children ~ Clubs ~ Falling ~ finding ~ Forced ~ Free School Meals ~ Full Time ~ fund ~ Guardian ~ Holidays ~ Meals ~ Nursery ~ school holidays ~ school meals ~ Universal Credit ~ Universities ~ work
Allocate more childcare funding for working parents
The government makes extra funding available for childcare costs and holiday clubs if: parents are in work and claiming Universal Credit; and if the child is eligible for free school meals respectively. This funding should also be available to working parents who fall outside these criteria.
Offering extra funding has multiple benefits: it would allow more parents, carers and guardians to take up full time work without worrying about high childcare costs, care givers are currently working to pay nursery and childcare fees. During the school holidays, they are left finding childcare or forced to take the little annual leave they have left whilst holiday clubs are funded for children on free school meals, whose parents may be on benefits. Open this funding up more widely.
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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