Petition · past parliament

No more fines for term time holidays . Bring back the two week allowance

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Stop the fines for parents taking their children an holidays . Unfortunately not all parents can get time off during school holidays.
The fines for parents has created an extremely bad relationship between parents and schools and this has a negative knock on effect. To hear the fines are increasing you will have more parents taking their children out of school schools for homeschooling . Rather than spending time finding people/ parents why dont the government spend more time supporting them. Everyone deserves a holiday for their own mental health and wellbeing and unfortunately if you work you don’t get 13 weeks off per year and can only have time of when suits the business.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for a similar action:

Allow parents to take their children out of school for up to 20 days a year
Allow parents to take their children out of school for up to 20 days a year

Timeline

29 Feb 2024 Petition opened for signatures
11 Mar 2024 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 11 Mar 2024

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.