P-04-576 Allow Children in Wales to Have a Family Holiday During Term Time – Correspondence from the Petitioner to the Committee, 13.04.17
Dear Petitions
committee,
This farce has to end, there needs to be some honesty, on the part
of the Assembly Education department, Every time we tell them there
is a problem with the way the Consortia are dealing with parents
and head teachers and present evidence of the misuse of Welsh
Assembly legislation, we get told there is no problem and that head
teachers in Wales have the right to allow Holidays during term
time. This is a lie, in just a couple of hours I had all these
responses, when I asked for schools that are still operating
blanket bans, this means there are many more, I have also attached
documents that are representative of those being given to parents
across Wales. We keep getting told that the situation in Wales
under Labour is different to England, as far as I can see, the only
difference is that in England the government tells the truth about
the situation and stands by it, whilst in Wales the Assembly hides
the real situation, with lies and falsehoods, do you have no shame?
It is despicable to hold the threat of reporting parents for
putting their child's welfare at risk, when all they want to do is
take them on holiday, this disgusting cowardly bullying behaviour
has to stop. Families are put under strain and are being
permanently damaged, you need to stop messing around, telling lies
and being ineffective cowards in general, and do something about
this now.
Bethany Walpole-Wroe