Department for Education

The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy in England. DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 14 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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• Reform Child Maintenance – require parental mediation and proof of care
  Open from Thursday 29th May 2025 to Saturday 29th November 2025
  31 signatures

• Review & modernise the GCSE curriculum to teach life skills & support students
  Open from Wednesday 28th May 2025 to Friday 28th November 2025
  65 signatures

• Allow BNO students in the process of getting ILR to apply as home students
  Open from Friday 23rd May 2025 to Sunday 23rd November 2025
  126 signatures

• Reverse the changes to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
  Open from Friday 23rd May 2025 to Sunday 23rd November 2025
  98 signatures

• Require local authorities to support estranged adults up to age 25
  Open from Friday 23rd May 2025 to Sunday 23rd November 2025
  67 signatures

• Review Primary Curriculum to ensure alignment with Children’s Developmental Need
  Open from Thursday 22nd May 2025 to Saturday 22nd November 2025
  295 signatures

• Make Nakba education part of the national curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 20th May 2025 to Thursday 20th November 2025
  458 signatures

• Raise the maximum age a child can be for parents to claim learning allowance
  Open from Monday 19th May 2025 to Wednesday 19th November 2025
  36 signatures

• Fund childminders to access publicly funded courses beyond level 3
  Open from Monday 19th May 2025 to Wednesday 19th November 2025
  16 signatures

• Increase funding for EHCPs to help address funding gaps in schools
  Open from Friday 16th May 2025 to Sunday 16th November 2025
  487 signatures

• Review the primary school curriculum to prepare children for secondary school
  Open from Thursday 15th May 2025 to Saturday 15th November 2025
  26 signatures

• Require Universities in England to hold mandatory workshops on consent
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  45 signatures

• Raise income threshold for free school meals to reflect cost of living crisis
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  40 signatures

• Require time & space for Muslim children to pray at school & education
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  230 signatures

• Review SWE processes & the Fitness to Practice guidance
  Open from Friday 9th May 2025 to Sunday 9th November 2025
  459 signatures

• Enable Ukrainian students to take their GCSEs in Ukrainian
  Open from Friday 9th May 2025 to Sunday 9th November 2025
  90 signatures

• Fund fire safety sessions to educate young people and prevent wildfires
  Open from Thursday 8th May 2025 to Saturday 8th November 2025
  57 signatures

• Reform curriculum to prioritise more outdoor learning/the outdoor environment
  Open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025
  61 signatures

• Add military preparation and cadet training into the national curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025
  103 signatures

• Fair funding for Early Years Care: To allow quality, training, and transparency
  Open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025
  1,606 signatures

• Review GCSE balance of coursework and exams
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  79 signatures

• Require all schools to let pupils wear their own clothes on Monday and Friday
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  187 signatures

• Base childcare support for working parents on household income
  Open from Friday 2nd May 2025 to Sunday 2nd November 2025
  74 signatures

• Fund the creation of more SEN schools
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  484 signatures

• Provide funding to develop a national programme for SEN children during holiday
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  511 signatures

• Introduce the history of trains and railways to the National Curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  46 signatures

• Require schools to ban students use of smartphones during school hours
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  510 signatures

• Make reading a separate subject on the national curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  18 signatures

• Introduce mandatory anti-bullying programmes in schools
  Open from Tuesday 29th April 2025 to Wednesday 29th October 2025
  167 signatures

• Make neurodiversity training mandatory for all education staff
  Open from Tuesday 29th April 2025 to Wednesday 29th October 2025
  30,556 signatures

• Review attendance rules in schools to support children with health requirements
  Open from Tuesday 29th April 2025 to Wednesday 29th October 2025
  58 signatures

• Refund student loans for students who studied during the Covid pandemic
  Open from Tuesday 29th April 2025 to Wednesday 29th October 2025
  38 signatures

• Penalties for Local Authorities if their EHCP decision is overturned at Tribunal
  Open from Friday 25th April 2025 to Saturday 25th October 2025
  3,562 signatures

• Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
  Open from Friday 25th April 2025 to Saturday 25th October 2025
  166,484 signatures

• Add animal care to the national curriculum
  Open from Friday 25th April 2025 to Saturday 25th October 2025
  69 signatures

• Require CCTV in all nursery & child-minding settings
  Open from Wednesday 23rd April 2025 to Thursday 23rd October 2025
  1,064 signatures

• Give students a legal right to access school toilets when they have their period
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  916 signatures

• Add more life skills to the national curriculum for secondary education
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  70 signatures

• Require schools to display school meal nutritional information
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  41 signatures

• Increase funding for schools and colleges
  Open from Tuesday 15th April 2025 to Wednesday 15th October 2025
  90 signatures

• Put the dangers of methanol poisoning on the school curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 15th April 2025 to Wednesday 15th October 2025
  12,441 signatures

• Full funding for tuition fees for disabled adults who want to return to college
  Open from Monday 14th April 2025 to Tuesday 14th October 2025
  44 signatures

• Ban schools from suspending pupils under the age of 7
  Open from Wednesday 9th April 2025 to Thursday 9th October 2025
  37 signatures

• Amend the guidance on developing school uniform policy: require practicality
  Open from Wednesday 9th April 2025 to Thursday 9th October 2025
  100 signatures

• Make Breathwork and Emotional Wellbeing Part of the National Curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  80 signatures

• Strengthen Safeguards related to Child Removal by Social Services
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  74 signatures

• Introduce a minimum trainee teacher wage equivalent to Teaching Assistant salary
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  559 signatures

• Remove parents’ right to withdraw secondary school students from sex education
  Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
  56 signatures

• Nationalise GCSE and A-Level exam boards.
  Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
  39 signatures

• Require schools to teach about organised crime & increase police funding
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  23 signatures

• Review safeguarding of disabled children in schools and accessibility
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  48 signatures

• Justice for ESN Survivors: apologise and fund financial compensation
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  814 signatures

• Increase investment in Higher Education
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  75 signatures

• Require schools to notify parents with PR of welfare concerns about their child
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  64 signatures

• Remove CWS Bill clauses and provide tangible support to home educating parents
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  32,576 signatures

• Change the mathematics curriculum to be more relevant to real life
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  35 signatures

• Increase Funding for Mental Health Services in Schools for Students’ Well-being
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  285 signatures

• Replace RE with 'Equality and acceptance' in the national curriculum
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  31 signatures

• Ban state schools from making Religious Studies a mandatory GCSE subject
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  42 signatures

• Review the curriculum to prioritise practical skills
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  30 signatures

• Provide urgent ring-fenced funding for counsellors in every school in England
  Open from Wednesday 26th March 2025 to Friday 26th September 2025
  847 signatures

• Include more sports options for GCSE PE
  Open from Wednesday 26th March 2025 to Friday 26th September 2025
  1,221 signatures

• Ban schools from implementing policies relating to appearance except clothing
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  126 signatures

• Require daily sports in schools and increase school sports funding
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  453 signatures

• Require CCTV cameras in all SEN schools and settings such as transport
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  377 signatures

• Stop Religious Education (RE) being compulsory in English schools from Year 10
  Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
  39 signatures

• Add boxing and martial arts to the education curriculum
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  30 signatures

• Teach Clare’s Law in school for young females & males
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  60 signatures

• Review the EHCP process. Timescales are not being met which is distressing.
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  1,515 signatures

• Put education on allergy & autoimmune based diets on the National Curriculum
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  34 signatures

• Ban adoption when birth parents are alive
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  28 signatures

• Add the subject of post-partum mental illness to the national curriculum
  Open from Thursday 20th March 2025 to Saturday 20th September 2025
  75 signatures

• Make the teaching of criminal offences & their consequences compulsory in school
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  1,056 signatures

• Provide funding for schools to hire a security guard to protect our children
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  42 signatures

• Create an inclusive special envoy for home educating families
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  586 signatures

• Introduce extensive teaching on deforestation to curriculum for all school ages
  Open from Monday 17th March 2025 to Wednesday 17th September 2025
  475 signatures

• Fund free British Sign Language Courses for deaf people and their friends/family
  Open from Monday 17th March 2025 to Wednesday 17th September 2025
  566 signatures

• Provide funding for all schools to have a social worker
  Open from Monday 17th March 2025 to Wednesday 17th September 2025
  216 signatures

• Fund all secondary schools to have metal detectors
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  74 signatures

• Shorten the school days in winter.
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  22 signatures

• Ban AI tools to write and mark school assignments
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  56 signatures

• Make Accents a Protected Characteristic under the Equality Act 2010
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  24 signatures

• Fund airport-style security for all schools to screen students for drugs
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  20 signatures

• Government to fund the creation of more arts, drama and music clubs
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  36 signatures

• Introduce Human Trafficking into the education curriculum
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  25 signatures

• Reverse the decision to axe the £4 million Latin Excellence Programme in schools
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  28 signatures

• Set a price cap on food in school canteens
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  39 signatures

• Introduce an Education Voucher Scheme for Equity in UK Education
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  76 signatures

• Require schools to allow students to use their phones at break and lunch
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  89 signatures

• Review process for Foster Carers transferring between local authorities
  Open from Thursday 6th March 2025 to Saturday 6th September 2025
  88 signatures

• End the mandate for students aged 16-18 to resit GCSE Maths and English
  Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
  38 signatures

• Make teaching BSL mandatory in all schools
  Open from Tuesday 4th March 2025 to Thursday 4th September 2025
  279 signatures

• Fund more school transportation to increase safety for children
  Open from Monday 3rd March 2025 to Wednesday 3rd September 2025
  67 signatures

• Introduce self-defence into the secondary school PE curriculum for all students
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  99 signatures

• Teach diabetes prevention to secondary school children
  Open from Tuesday 25th February 2025 to Monday 25th August 2025
  87 signatures

• Make income threshold for student loan repayments £60,000 and charge no interest
  Open from Tuesday 25th February 2025 to Monday 25th August 2025
  55 signatures

• Review civic education in secondary schools.
  Open from Wednesday 19th February 2025 to Tuesday 19th August 2025
  28 signatures

• Every school & college to be obliged to have an evacuation chair & training
  Open from Tuesday 18th February 2025 to Monday 18th August 2025
  104,195 signatures

• Increase support for children affected from being bullied
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  427 signatures

• Require all state nurseries, schools and colleges to have the same term dates.
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  34 signatures

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