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562 petitions, ranked by signature count · page 7 of 12.

Add animal care to the national curriculum

Restore Plan 2 student loan repayment threshold increases from April 2026

Allow all schools to choose their own holiday dates

Fund more school transportation to increase safety for children

Require local authorities to support estranged adults up to age 25

Establish instant lockdown alert system for schools, nurseries & parents

Review Child Maintenance Service to disincentivise parents withholding custody

Review & modernise the GCSE curriculum to teach life skills & support students

Provide government funding for early dyslexia screening in all primary schools

Teach the full history of South Asian people who fought for Britain

Make SEND awareness a mandatory part of primary school curriculum

Require schools to notify parents with PR of welfare concerns about their child

Ban AI usage in education by teachers and students

Provide means-tested tax relief on private school fees.

Don't let schools make religious studies compulsory for GCSEs

Introduce a statutory ban on mobile phones in secondary school lessons

Require schools to finish by 2 pm

Add Politics & Economics lessons to the secondary school curriculum

Make road safety lessons a mandatory part of the curriculum

Introduce children's rights into the primary and secondary curriculum

Launch a cross departmental review into school term times, holiday care & work

Reform curriculum to prioritise more outdoor learning/the outdoor environment

Require schools to have a half day on a Friday or Monday

Launch a review into increasing the teaching of LGBTQ education in schools

Teach Clare’s Law in school for young females & males

Change the 30 free childcare hours to include Ofsted registered nannies

Fund ADHD Parenting Classes with Expert Tools and Support

Review attendance rules in schools to support children with health requirements

Fund fire safety sessions to educate young people and prevent wildfires

Remove parents’ right to withdraw secondary school students from sex education

Ban AI tools to write and mark school assignments

Fund more student finance support for architecture students

Make income threshold for student loan repayments £60,000 and charge no interest

Review education about nutrition and responsible farming in schools

Schools to allow absence exceptions for students with mental health struggles

Introduce self-defence lessons into the PE curriculum in all secondary schools

Revise calculation of student loan repayments for overseas graduates

Make teaching the dangers of the oversexualisation of women compulsory for KS4/5

Ensure the Reception Baseline Assessment can be carried out screen free

Require all LAs in England to publish why children enter elective home-ed

All pre-settled status students to be charged home fees instead of international

Require every secondary school to have access to a counsellor

Do not cut funding from the Latin Excellence Programme

Let low-income parents take kids on short term-time holidays without fines

Ban nurseries from charging parents for keeping their children off sick.

Provide funding so every school can have a full-time school counsellor

Require schools prioritise comfort in uniforms & more personal choice for pupils

Require schools to prioritise siblings over catchment area in admission policies

Mandate all schools to provide at least two PE lessons per week

Review educational provision for children with SEMH needs