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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• Make Mental Health and Well-being a mandatory subject for GCSE students
  Open from Friday 28th January 2022 to Thursday 28th July 2022
  64 signatures

• Fully fund sign language lessons for parents of deaf children in early years.
  Open from Friday 28th January 2022 to Thursday 28th July 2022
  135 signatures

• Make it a specific criminal offence to leave a child under 4 years old alone
  Open from Thursday 27th January 2022 to Wednesday 27th July 2022
  160 signatures

• Mandatory anti-racism and microaggression training for teachers
  Open from Wednesday 26th January 2022 to Tuesday 26th July 2022
  281 signatures

• Develop an Education Health Care Plan template for use by all local authorities
  Open from Monday 24th January 2022 to Sunday 24th July 2022
  1,806 signatures

• End the practice of 'forced adoption' via the family court system
  Open from Monday 24th January 2022 to Sunday 24th July 2022
  377 signatures

• Fund increased support for children with additional needs in mainstream schools
  Open from Friday 21st January 2022 to Thursday 21st July 2022
  143 signatures

• Add the British National Anthem to the National Curriculum
  Open from Thursday 20th January 2022 to Wednesday 20th July 2022
  398 signatures

• Reintroduce the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
  Open from Thursday 20th January 2022 to Wednesday 20th July 2022
  119 signatures

• Review the quality and cost of Higher Education during the pandemic.
  Open from Thursday 13th January 2022 to Wednesday 13th July 2022
  139 signatures

• Allow schools to open all year round, for fewer days per week
  Open from Wednesday 12th January 2022 to Tuesday 12th July 2022
  15 signatures

• Fund an increase to the school meal allowance in line with inflation
  Open from Tuesday 11th January 2022 to Monday 11th July 2022
  39 signatures

• Give students the choice to either learn from home or have face-to-face teaching
  Open from Tuesday 4th January 2022 to Monday 4th July 2022
  27 signatures

• Abolish homework across all schools
  Open from Tuesday 4th January 2022 to Monday 4th July 2022
  211 signatures

• Stop schools selling or giving students single-use plastic water bottles
  Open from Thursday 30th December 2021 to Thursday 30th June 2022
  245 signatures

• Grant Home Fee status for all who are in the UK under the BNO visa.
  Open from Thursday 30th December 2021 to Thursday 30th June 2022
  7,945 signatures

• Do not impose covid-19 restrictions on higher education students
  Open from Wednesday 22nd December 2021 to Wednesday 22nd June 2022
  144 signatures

• Close schools and colleges and replace exams with teacher assessed grades
  Open from Wednesday 22nd December 2021 to Wednesday 22nd June 2022
  1,042 signatures

• Reduce maximum tuition fees by half for any closures due to COVID
  Open from Tuesday 21st December 2021 to Tuesday 21st June 2022
  29 signatures

• Increase grants for postgraduate study in social work
  Open from Tuesday 21st December 2021 to Tuesday 21st June 2022
  157 signatures

• Keep schools open if there are further restrictions due to the Omicron variant
  Open from Tuesday 21st December 2021 to Tuesday 21st June 2022
  104 signatures

• Improve Covid-19 Mitigation Measures in Schools
  Open from Tuesday 21st December 2021 to Tuesday 21st June 2022
  1,857 signatures

• Add sign language and lip reading to the national curriculum
  Open from Monday 20th December 2021 to Monday 20th June 2022
  33 signatures

• Automatically remove parental responsibility following child or domestic abuse
  Open from Monday 20th December 2021 to Monday 20th June 2022
  184 signatures

• Review child protection legislation and procedures
  Open from Monday 20th December 2021 to Monday 20th June 2022
  69 signatures

• Introduce a Kannada language GCSE
  Open from Thursday 16th December 2021 to Thursday 16th June 2022
  1,177 signatures

• Fund defibrillators and emergency first aid training for all schools
  Open from Wednesday 15th December 2021 to Wednesday 15th June 2022
  2,578 signatures

• Require schools to have active threat lockdown policies
  Open from Tuesday 14th December 2021 to Tuesday 14th June 2022
  16 signatures

• Legal default of equal shared care for children upon separation.
  Open from Tuesday 14th December 2021 to Tuesday 14th June 2022
  813 signatures

• Fund free school meals for Year 3 and 4 pupils until 2024
  Open from Tuesday 14th December 2021 to Tuesday 14th June 2022
  23 signatures

• Reduce and freeze student loan interest rates at 1.5% per annum
  Open from Monday 13th December 2021 to Monday 13th June 2022
  155 signatures

• Lift ban on self-employment for international students on a Student visa
  Open from Friday 10th December 2021 to Friday 10th June 2022
  60 signatures

• Require the return of all marked exams and recordings to students
  Open from Thursday 9th December 2021 to Thursday 9th June 2022
  19 signatures

• Require schools to teach about going to prison as part of the curriculum
  Open from Thursday 9th December 2021 to Thursday 9th June 2022
  20 signatures

• Bring back single award GCSE Science.
  Open from Thursday 9th December 2021 to Thursday 9th June 2022
  255 signatures

• Fund schools to support pupils with SPD
  Open from Wednesday 8th December 2021 to Wednesday 8th June 2022
  13 signatures

• Provide funding for BSL classes for all school and college students and staff
  Open from Wednesday 8th December 2021 to Wednesday 8th June 2022
  158 signatures

• Promote a safe word children can say to indicate they are hurt or being abused
  Open from Wednesday 8th December 2021 to Wednesday 8th June 2022
  250 signatures

• Do not include language about protests in any DfE strategies
  Open from Monday 6th December 2021 to Monday 6th June 2022
  892 signatures

• Ensure GCSE and A level exams take place in 2022
  Open from Friday 3rd December 2021 to Friday 3rd June 2022
  20 signatures

• Fund free childcare for working parents with children over 9 months
  Open from Friday 3rd December 2021 to Friday 3rd June 2022
  1,480 signatures

• Provide more integrated healthcare and education to protect children
  Open from Wednesday 1st December 2021 to Wednesday 1st June 2022
  61 signatures

• Give a one-off £500 grant to every student starting university or college
  Open from Wednesday 1st December 2021 to Wednesday 1st June 2022
  24 signatures

• Require children attending school to isolate whilst waiting for a PCR result
  Open from Wednesday 1st December 2021 to Wednesday 1st June 2022
  23 signatures

• Reinstate contact tracing requirement for schools
  Open from Tuesday 30th November 2021 to Monday 30th May 2022
  35 signatures

• Increase diversity of the history curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 30th November 2021 to Monday 30th May 2022
  33 signatures

• Require universities to refund students during any strike action
  Open from Monday 29th November 2021 to Sunday 29th May 2022
  12,291 signatures

• Extend the COVID-19 temporary visa concessions for international students
  Open from Monday 29th November 2021 to Sunday 29th May 2022
  23 signatures

• Require primary schools to have separate male and female changing facilities
  Open from Friday 26th November 2021 to Thursday 26th May 2022
  55 signatures

• Add disability awareness to the national curriculum
  Open from Thursday 25th November 2021 to Wednesday 25th May 2022
  267 signatures

• Prohibit schools from having CCTV in toilets or changing rooms
  Open from Wednesday 24th November 2021 to Tuesday 24th May 2022
  47 signatures

• Include financial education in the national curriculum for primary schools
  Open from Monday 22nd November 2021 to Sunday 22nd May 2022
  27 signatures

• Provide funding to ITT providers to give trainee teachers a salary.
  Open from Monday 22nd November 2021 to Sunday 22nd May 2022
  53 signatures

• Abolish detention outside school sessions
  Open from Friday 19th November 2021 to Thursday 19th May 2022
  43 signatures

• Offer student finance in monthly instalments
  Open from Thursday 18th November 2021 to Wednesday 18th May 2022
  20 signatures

• Fund free school meals for all students year-round
  Open from Wednesday 17th November 2021 to Tuesday 17th May 2022
  91 signatures

• Require all educational settings to have a bereavement policy
  Open from Tuesday 16th November 2021 to Monday 16th May 2022
  1,288 signatures

• Make politics a compulsory subject from years 7 - 9
  Open from Monday 15th November 2021 to Sunday 15th May 2022
  32 signatures

• Allow children 7 days holiday per year during term time without fines
  Open from Monday 15th November 2021 to Sunday 15th May 2022
  2,578 signatures

• Free school meal vouchers to cover the school holidays
  Open from Monday 15th November 2021 to Sunday 15th May 2022
  16 signatures

• Fund additional specialist school capacity for children with disabilities & SEN
  Open from Thursday 11th November 2021 to Wednesday 11th May 2022
  126 signatures

• Create and implement a strategy for eradicating child poverty
  Open from Tuesday 9th November 2021 to Monday 9th May 2022
  87 signatures

• Recommend primary schools encourage unvaccinated students to wear face masks
  Open from Tuesday 9th November 2021 to Monday 9th May 2022
  27 signatures

• Education system reform for children with high functioning autism
  Open from Monday 8th November 2021 to Sunday 8th May 2022
  76 signatures

• Provide interest-free loans for Muslim students progressing into university!
  Open from Friday 5th November 2021 to Thursday 5th May 2022
  72 signatures

• Extend student maintenance loans to full-time Distance Learning students
  Open from Thursday 4th November 2021 to Wednesday 4th May 2022
  51 signatures

• Commit to cutting school carbon footprints to zero by 2025
  Open from Tuesday 2nd November 2021 to Monday 2nd May 2022
  37 signatures

• Reverse Art Funding Cuts and Don't Limit Art Student Degree Numbers
  Open from Friday 29th October 2021 to Friday 29th April 2022
  29 signatures

• Meal vouchers to be given to SEN children waiting for a school placement.
  Open from Friday 29th October 2021 to Friday 29th April 2022
  19 signatures

• Add time management to the national curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 26th October 2021 to Tuesday 26th April 2022
  15 signatures

• Add sign language on to the national schools curriculum.
  Open from Tuesday 26th October 2021 to Tuesday 26th April 2022
  702 signatures

• Make one dose of COVID-19 vaccine a requirement for people to attend school
  Open from Monday 25th October 2021 to Monday 25th April 2022
  36 signatures

• DfE to report grade 3 as a 'standard pass'
  Open from Monday 25th October 2021 to Monday 25th April 2022
  12 signatures

• Review guidance and funding for using SSP (phonics) to teach reading
  Open from Monday 25th October 2021 to Monday 25th April 2022
  3,205 signatures

• Extend Pupil Premium Plus to support further and higher education students
  Open from Friday 22nd October 2021 to Friday 22nd April 2022
  31 signatures

• Increase school transport provision for students from lower income households
  Open from Thursday 21st October 2021 to Thursday 21st April 2022
  189 signatures

• Close schools and bring back online learning until the end of Jan 2022
  Open from Thursday 21st October 2021 to Thursday 21st April 2022
  15,119 signatures

• Add the subject of grief to the national curriculum
  Open from Thursday 21st October 2021 to Thursday 21st April 2022
  76 signatures

• Impose penalties on councils who fail to provide EHCPs on time
  Open from Wednesday 20th October 2021 to Wednesday 20th April 2022
  24 signatures

• Introduce routine scoliosis screening in primary and secondary schools
  Open from Wednesday 20th October 2021 to Wednesday 20th April 2022
  372 signatures

• Bring about a ban on smoking outside our nation’s schools
  Open from Tuesday 19th October 2021 to Tuesday 19th April 2022
  23 signatures

• Ban mandatory face coverings in schools
  Open from Monday 18th October 2021 to Monday 18th April 2022
  201 signatures

• Require schools to allow children to bring a mobile phone into school
  Open from Friday 15th October 2021 to Friday 15th April 2022
  27 signatures

• Increase student maintenance loans in line with RPI inflation year-on-year
  Open from Friday 15th October 2021 to Friday 15th April 2022
  30 signatures

• Reinstate English student teacher bursaries and reimburse expenses
  Open from Thursday 14th October 2021 to Thursday 14th April 2022
  60 signatures

• Add animal welfare to the national curriculum from EYFS
  Open from Thursday 14th October 2021 to Thursday 14th April 2022
  91 signatures

• Reinstate ITT bursaries for all subjects
  Open from Thursday 14th October 2021 to Thursday 14th April 2022
  46 signatures

• Cancel the 2022 GCSE exams
  Open from Wednesday 13th October 2021 to Wednesday 13th April 2022
  102 signatures

• Reduce university tuition fees to a more affordable £3,000 per year
  Open from Tuesday 12th October 2021 to Tuesday 12th April 2022
  194 signatures

• Fund the installation of defibrillators in all educational settings
  Open from Friday 8th October 2021 to Friday 8th April 2022
  1,548 signatures

• Reform home schooling policy and increase support for home schooled children
  Open from Thursday 7th October 2021 to Thursday 7th April 2022
  163 signatures

• Publish details of proposed changes to GCSE, AS and A level exams by Oct 2021
  Open from Thursday 7th October 2021 to Thursday 7th April 2022
  102 signatures

• Add First Aid education to the national curriculum for Year 5 to Year 11
  Open from Thursday 7th October 2021 to Thursday 7th April 2022
  118 signatures

• Require schools to make Friday a part of the school weekend
  Open from Wednesday 6th October 2021 to Wednesday 6th April 2022
  148,136 signatures

• Wipe Student Debts for Tuition Fees for University Students Affect by Covid
  Open from Wednesday 6th October 2021 to Wednesday 6th April 2022
  28 signatures

• Replace SAT's with lower stress, effective teacher assessments
  Open from Wednesday 6th October 2021 to Wednesday 6th April 2022
  127 signatures

• Require schools to have gender-neutral uniform policies
  Open from Tuesday 5th October 2021 to Tuesday 5th April 2022
  177 signatures

• Do not apply changes to terms & conditions to existing student loan agreements
  Open from Thursday 30th September 2021 to Wednesday 30th March 2022
  229 signatures

• Add Self Defence to the National Curriculum from Year 7 upwards
  Open from Tuesday 28th September 2021 to Monday 28th March 2022
  113 signatures

• Add mental health training to teaching courses
  Open from Monday 27th September 2021 to Sunday 27th March 2022
  49 signatures

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