Department for Education

The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 18 agencies and public bodies.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Gillian Keegan MP
  Secretary of State for Education
• The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP
  Minister of State (Minister of State for Schools)
• The Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education)
• Claire Coutinho MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing)
• Baroness Barran MBE
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System and Student Finance)

Petitions linked to this department

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• Give all children the option of blended/online learning in the future
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  1,258 signatures

• To ensure every child has access to a qualified counsellor within school.
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  2,487 signatures

• Provide free childcare to working parents for children over 9 months.
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  2,767 signatures

• Extend 30 hrs free childcare for 3 & 4 year olds to those earning over £100,000
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  15 signatures

• Change the Early Years funding to start the month after a child turns 2 or 3
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  1,821 signatures

• Require equal coverage of women’s achievements in the National Curriculum
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  64 signatures

• Allow all students to return to university at the start of the Summer term
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  11,302 signatures

• End CMS loop-holes for parents who hide their income through Limited Companies.
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  160 signatures

• Confirm arrangements for 2022 GCSE, A-level and BTEC exams by summer 2021
  Open from Friday 9th April 2021 to Saturday 9th October 2021
  143 signatures

• Make British Sign Language a language option in the national curriculum
  Open from Friday 9th April 2021 to Saturday 9th October 2021
  324 signatures

• Extend eligibility for free prescriptions to all students in full time education
  Open from Thursday 8th April 2021 to Friday 8th October 2021
  34 signatures

• Make school uniform optional for students in secondary schools.
  Open from Thursday 8th April 2021 to Friday 8th October 2021
  205 signatures

• Match Scotland’s "Plan 1" student loan repayment threshold of £25k
  Open from Wednesday 7th April 2021 to Thursday 7th October 2021
  14 signatures

• Require schools to teach about environmental conservation
  Open from Tuesday 6th April 2021 to Wednesday 6th October 2021
  33 signatures

• Anti-racism lessons should be made compulsory in schools
  Open from Tuesday 6th April 2021 to Wednesday 6th October 2021
  127 signatures

• Make British Sign Language (BSL) a compulsory subject in the national curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 6th April 2021 to Wednesday 6th October 2021
  86 signatures

• Ban the use of face masks in schools
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  38,080 signatures

• Extend the Maintenance loan to cover part time distance learning students
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  280 signatures

• Increase awareness of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in UK schools
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  1,236 signatures

• Give residents with FLR (FP) status access to home fees for health degrees
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  44 signatures

• Offer all students the full maintenance loan no matter what their parents earn.
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  29 signatures

• Give pre-settled EU students access to home fees
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  96 signatures

• Include infertility and the effects in the national curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  233 signatures

• Reallocate the £350 million from the NTP to schools to support pupils directly
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  30 signatures

• Introduce Human Trafficking awareness into the National Curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  35 signatures

• Modify arrangements for Home Education of children with an EHCP
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  57 signatures

• Introduce an optional philosophy GCSE into the current Key Stage 4 curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  478 signatures

• Create more curriculum around diversity and inclusion within secondary schools.
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  77 signatures

• Provide dairy-free alternatives as part of the national milk scheme for under 5s
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  10,445 signatures

• Lateral Flow Test (LFT) made compulsory in Secondary Schools for all.
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  13 signatures

• Organise and fund a 6-week 'Summer of Fun' for children and young people
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  25 signatures

• Give 2022/2023 GCSE students a choice between exams or teacher assessed grades
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  39 signatures

• Require schools to allow pupils to wear PE kit for the full day on PE day
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  981 signatures

• Create a mandatory Financial Education subject at secondary
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  19 signatures

• Ensure A-level grades are not lower than previously awarded AS-level grades
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  108 signatures

• Create an Events Cancellation Fund for the events sector
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  26 signatures

• Give students who got A-level results in 2020 options for alternative grades
  Open from Friday 26th March 2021 to Sunday 26th September 2021
  103 signatures

• Consider to reintroduce maintenance grants for students going to university
  Open from Thursday 25th March 2021 to Saturday 25th September 2021
  10 signatures

• Require schools to have a gender-neutral uniform policy
  Open from Wednesday 24th March 2021 to Friday 24th September 2021
  85 signatures

• Offer 15hrs free childcare for multiples under 3 years
  Open from Wednesday 24th March 2021 to Friday 24th September 2021
  13,808 signatures

• Extend free school meals for all current Year 2 pupils for another year
  Open from Wednesday 24th March 2021 to Friday 24th September 2021
  22 signatures

• Provide funding to improve the quality of teaching in schools of sexual violence
  Open from Tuesday 23rd March 2021 to Thursday 23rd September 2021
  38 signatures

• Exclude assessments taken during lockdown from teacher assessed grades
  Open from Monday 22nd March 2021 to Wednesday 22nd September 2021
  39 signatures

• Lift the cap on university places for 2021/22 due to impact of COVID-19
  Open from Monday 22nd March 2021 to Wednesday 22nd September 2021
  23 signatures

• Extend DfE and Ofsted oversight to private schools
  Open from Friday 19th March 2021 to Sunday 19th September 2021
  37 signatures

• Prevent Functional Skill Qualification (FSQ)/ESOL exams taking place in 2021
  Open from Friday 19th March 2021 to Sunday 19th September 2021
  1,300 signatures

• Extend free childcare to Tier 2 visa holders
  Open from Thursday 18th March 2021 to Saturday 18th September 2021
  195 signatures

• Give Students the Choice Between predicted Grades or Teacher Assessed Grades
  Open from Thursday 18th March 2021 to Saturday 18th September 2021
  37 signatures

• Provide free state-run childcare for all parents with children under 18
  Open from Thursday 18th March 2021 to Saturday 18th September 2021
  20 signatures

• Make Government and Politics compulsory at Secondary School including for GCSE
  Open from Thursday 18th March 2021 to Saturday 18th September 2021
  441 signatures

• Do not cut UK higher education Arts Funding
  Open from Thursday 18th March 2021 to Saturday 18th September 2021
  37,172 signatures

• Mandatory self-defence classes as part of school curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  193 signatures

• Require schools across England to start the school day at 10am.
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  20 signatures

• Parental rights should be lost if you don't contact your child for a year.
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  17 signatures

• Remove recommendation that face coverings be used in classrooms
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  33 signatures

• Require schools to provide online classes as an option to all children
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  18 signatures

• Allow grades for students with memory loss to be set by continual assessment
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  478 signatures

• Place Defibrillators and handheld Face pumps into all schools.
  Open from Tuesday 16th March 2021 to Thursday 16th September 2021
  112 signatures

• Allow schools to decide what meals they provide
  Open from Tuesday 16th March 2021 to Thursday 16th September 2021
  153 signatures

• Introduce character education to the curriculum under PSHE
  Open from Tuesday 16th March 2021 to Thursday 16th September 2021
  351 signatures

• Generically Rebrand the Turing Scheme
  Open from Tuesday 16th March 2021 to Thursday 16th September 2021
  58 signatures

• Grandparents have legal rights to see grandchildren.
  Open from Tuesday 16th March 2021 to Thursday 16th September 2021
  324 signatures

• Let Our Children Learn About Peace through the educational curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 16th March 2021 to Thursday 16th September 2021
  22 signatures

• Change the title of Special Schools to Support Schools.
  Open from Friday 12th March 2021 to Sunday 12th September 2021
  32 signatures

• Provide free breakfast club provision for all primary school children.

• ALL GCSEs to be optional not compulsory, allowing equal value to ALL subjects
  Open from Friday 12th March 2021 to Sunday 12th September 2021
  27 signatures

• Introduce Covid-19 testing in primary schools in England for all staff & pupils.
  Open from Friday 12th March 2021 to Sunday 12th September 2021
  34 signatures

• Scrap national exams for Key Stage 4 permanently
  Open from Friday 12th March 2021 to Sunday 12th September 2021
  32 signatures

• Add parental alienation to the curriculum with mandatory training for teachers
  Open from Wednesday 10th March 2021 to Friday 10th September 2021
  362 signatures

• Make psychology a mandatory subject in the secondary school curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 10th March 2021 to Friday 10th September 2021
  84 signatures

• Increase curriculum content about water safety as part of swimming lessons
  Open from Tuesday 9th March 2021 to Thursday 9th September 2021
  108,196 signatures

• Require schools to operate a 4 day week
  Open from Tuesday 9th March 2021 to Thursday 9th September 2021
  24 signatures

• Require all teachers and TAs to have basic mental health training
  Open from Tuesday 9th March 2021 to Thursday 9th September 2021
  30 signatures

• Allow all parents studying at university to receive the Child Care Grant (CCG).
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  40 signatures

• Do not impose new free speech conditions on higher education
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  44 signatures

• Add Yoga to the School Curriculum
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  3,157 signatures

• Cancel Easter school holidays to allow kids to stay in school
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  11 signatures

• Cancel all GCSE, AS and A level exams until 2024.
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  38 signatures

• Set a date for when non-practical university students can return to campus
  Open from Friday 5th March 2021 to Sunday 5th September 2021
  2,170 signatures

• Do not make it mandatory to wear a mask in the classroom
  Open from Thursday 4th March 2021 to Saturday 4th September 2021
  4,442 signatures

• Tuition Fee Compensation for International Students in UK Universities
  Open from Tuesday 2nd March 2021 to Thursday 2nd September 2021
  36,222 signatures

• Allow families to take children out of school for a holiday this year only
  Open from Tuesday 2nd March 2021 to Thursday 2nd September 2021
  14 signatures

• Increase the legal age of adulthood for vulnerable & looked after persons
  Open from Monday 1st March 2021 to Wednesday 1st September 2021
  54 signatures

• Put more funding into music, drama, and dance education.
  Open from Monday 1st March 2021 to Wednesday 1st September 2021
  33 signatures

• The UK Government should not fine parents for taking children on holiday.
  Open from Friday 26th February 2021 to Thursday 26th August 2021
  62 signatures

• Delay the return of school to the 22nd of march to keep students and staff safe
  Open from Friday 26th February 2021 to Thursday 26th August 2021
  29 signatures

• End the academic year at Easter for this year’s Upper Sixth and Year 11
  Open from Thursday 25th February 2021 to Wednesday 25th August 2021
  1,659 signatures

• Limit when welfare assessments under the Children Act 1989 can be conducted
  Open from Thursday 25th February 2021 to Wednesday 25th August 2021
  36 signatures

• Don’t re-open schools until all staff have been vaccinated
  Open from Wednesday 24th February 2021 to Tuesday 24th August 2021
  45 signatures

• Disallow Teacher Assessed Grades lower than a 5 for 2021 GCSEs and A-Levels
  Open from Wednesday 24th February 2021 to Tuesday 24th August 2021
  21 signatures

• Cancel the school 20/21 year for primary pupils. Repeat the years in 21/22.
  Open from Wednesday 24th February 2021 to Tuesday 24th August 2021
  17 signatures

• Don’t re-open schools until September
  Open from Tuesday 23rd February 2021 to Monday 23rd August 2021
  32 signatures

• Lower tuition fees to a minimum £5,000 for University students during covid-19.
  Open from Tuesday 23rd February 2021 to Monday 23rd August 2021
  488 signatures

• Fund study of Allied Health Professional University courses
  Open from Tuesday 23rd February 2021 to Monday 23rd August 2021
  19 signatures

• Don’t send students back until mid April, to ensure a definite decrease in cases
  Open from Tuesday 23rd February 2021 to Monday 23rd August 2021
  24 signatures

• Scrap plans to write off historic child support debts.
  Open from Monday 22nd February 2021 to Sunday 22nd August 2021
  812 signatures

• Fund free school meals for all children
  Open from Friday 19th February 2021 to Thursday 19th August 2021
  23 signatures

• Include the harmful environmental impact of plastic waste on the curriculum
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  136 signatures

• Teach two languages to every child as part of the National Curriculum
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  41 signatures

• Extend school period product scheme to help young people being home schooled.
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  16 signatures

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