Rejected petition Parliament to create legislation against children and young people being bullied

According to the nspcc:
There were over 25,700 Childline counselling sessions with children about bullying in 2015
More than 16,000 young people are absent from school due to bullying
Please sign this petition to create laws against bullying in schools. The aim is to save lives not destroy them.

More details

http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/research/key-statistics/

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/bullying-and-cyberbullying/bullying-cyberbullying-statistics/

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Bullying/Pages/Bullyingfacts.aspx

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/161936

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Date submitted 7 October 2016
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