Petition · past parliament · Department for Education
Increase the minimum legal allocation of protected PPA time to 20%
Closed
132 signatures
What the petition asks
Increase the legal minimum allocated time for teachers to have protected for planning and assessment to 20%, which would be the equivalent of 1 hour a day for planning, preparation, assessment and admin. This needs to be a legal requirement for all teachers that hold QTS, irrespective of employer.
Currently the legal minimum of protected preparation and assessment time for teachers is equavilent to 30 minutes a day. Due to increased admin tasks associated with digital learning, which will be a permanent change in teaching, this needs to be increased to the equivalent of 1 hour a day PPA time.
Across the country teachers work days with 8 hours contact time, and then still need to do daily PPA activities, increasing the legal minimum PPA time ensures employers responsibility to employees
Across the country teachers work days with 8 hours contact time, and then still need to do daily PPA activities, increasing the legal minimum PPA time ensures employers responsibility to employees
Timeline
| 19 Apr 2021 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 19 Oct 2021 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
132
Status
Closed
Department
Department for Education
Opened
19 Apr 2021
Closed
19 Oct 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.