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Allow parents to take their children out of school for up to 10 days fine free.

Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND

Reduce the school week to four days a week

New Disclosure and Safeguarding Mechanism for At-Risk Children

Make Play and Continuous Provision statutory in England's Key Stage 1 Curriculum

Every school & college to be obliged to have an evacuation chair & training

Make it statutory guidance not to remove break-times for neurodivergent children

Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance

Commission independent inquiry into delays in SEND education provision

Remove CWS Bill clauses and provide tangible support to home educating parents

Make neurodiversity training mandatory for all education staff

Improve funding, pay & professional recognition for the Early Years workforce

Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill immediately

Abolish interest charges on student loans

Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day

Criminalise & legally require schools to tackle bullying in & out of school

Allow families with SEN children 10 days term-time holiday without being fined

Introduce an independent appeals panel for school absences

Embed food, farming, and sustainability education into the national curriculum

Introduce a ‘School Allergy Safety Bill’ to Protect School Pupils with Allergies

Make GCSE exams free for home educated children under 18

Put the dangers of methanol poisoning on the school curriculum

Introduce national support standards for autistic children with PDA

Introduce a distinct attendance code for flexischooling (Code F).

Don't introduce unique child identifier and increased home education regulation

Do Not Scrap the 1265 Directed Time Provision for Teachers

Protect legal right to support for children with SEND

Legally require all secondary schools in England to teach financial education

Automatically remove parental responsibility for parents convicted of abuse

Pause and review the use of EdTech in schools and early years settings

Create an independent early years funding review

Issue new guidance on teachers’ early retirement rights

Increase funding for Early years providers.

Stop giving homework to primary and secondary school students

Pause Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill for consultation with children

Honour maintenance loans and childcare grants for existing weekend students

Exempt all military families from school fines — let them be with family.

Penalties for Local Authorities if their EHCP decision is overturned at Tribunal

Introduce British Sign Language (BSL) to all primary school children

Reform pay, working conditions and national standards for TA's and SEN LSA's.

Cap Academy Trust CEO Pay and Protect School Funding for Children

Fund screening for neurodivergent conditions in schools & teacher training

Require schools to notify parents if a pupil is distressed by results feedback

We call on Government to urgently revise the mobile phone in schools guidance

Launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ people

Government to fund access to portage services by all Local Authorities

Halt the Pylon Network Expansion & support underground & undersea cabling

Support families by bringing nannies into the 15/30 hours free childcare scheme

Amend Law so Definitions of Man & Woman Include Transgender and Intersex People