Petition · Department of Health and Social Care
Require private nurseries to pay sick pay for employees at full wage
Closed
43 signatures
What the petition asks
As practitioners working first hand with early years children, we sometimes pick up sickness bugs, conjunctivitis and flu. We can lose pay for being off sick and it can effect our Bradford score when the germs may have been passed to us while doing our jobs.
I think we need more support and if we are ill from a bug that’s going around the workplace, the company should cover our sick pay at the same rate as our wages. I think that the staff are the heart of most work places.
Timeline
| 1 Aug 2025 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 1 Feb 2026 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
43
Status
Closed
Department
Department of Health and Social Care
Opened
1 Aug 2025
Closed
1 Feb 2026
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 20 Aug 2026.