Allocate more childcare funding for working parents

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)

Relevant Departments

Department for Education

Tagged with

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

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Popularity

This petition has 26 signatures in total, with signatories from 17 constituencies. That makes it the 2,129th most popular open petition, and the 38,691st most popular of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 5% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 27% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

8 - Bassetlaw
2 - Newton Abbot
2 - Rother Valley
1 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
1 - Witney
1 - Widnes and Halewood
1 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
1 - Rotherham
1 - Rochester and Strood
1 - North East Derbyshire
1 - Meriden and Solihull East
1 - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
1 - East Wiltshire
1 - Broxbourne
1 - Brent West
1 - Bathgate and Linlithgow

Signatures by Region

9 - East Midlands
3 - Yorkshire and The Humber
3 - West Midlands
3 - South East
3 - South West
2 - North West
1 - East of England
1 - London
1 - Scotland

Signatures by Country

26 - United Kingdom

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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