JonPritchard published Petition to allow children to take term time off school to be...

Parliament will discuss allowing children to go on holiday during term time – thanks to a petition by a Stapleford parent.Dave Hedley's petition has had more than 170,000 signatures since it was launched and will now be discussed by MPs on July 11. Mr Hedley was fined for taking his two eldest children, Dominic, 10 and Laila, nine, out of school for a holiday.The family had a trip to the Lincolnshire coast in the week after the Easter break, which was a surprise from his mother. He was...