Any e-petition on the Direct Gov website that secures 10,000 signatures or more is guaranteed a response from the relevant Government department. Once a petition attracts more than 100,000 signatures it is considered for a debate in the House of Commons.
In the letter, Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-School learning Alliance, asks the DfE to fully address the concerns of parents and practitioners and not to issue a ‘standard pre-packaged statement’, given the level of opposition to the proposals.
‘Given the strength of feeling on the plans to relax childcare ratios, of which I am sure the Department is well aware, such a standard response would not be well received by thousands of parents who have voiced their opposition to the ratio proposals, and would serve to reinforce the already widespread perception that the Government is not listening to, or addressing, their serious concerns on this matter.’
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