Petition · past parliament
Prioritise teachers and support staff for the covid vaccine.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
Teachers and support staff across the age range have been repeatedly sidelined and ignored by government. Schools are categorically unsafe. Many teachers work in cramped classrooms with no social distancing, no ventilation and pupils aren’t required to wear masks in a classroom.
Raise teachers and support staff to a higher band on the priority vaccine list. This new strain of covid will certainly sweep through schools taking vast numbers of teachers with it. Thousands of teachers are being infected in the work place and must be prioritised as a matter of urgency.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 21 Dec 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 29 Dec 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
29 Dec 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.