This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government

Rejected petition Make UK immunisation schedule vaccines mandatory & refusal a criminal offence.

With anxi-vaccination theories catching on and more children missing their vaccinations we are becoming increasingly at risk of an epidemic. Once eradicated diseases returning and claiming lives once more.
Make it a criminal offence to refuse or avoid vaccines for your children and risk others.

More details

Below, a list of the current UK vaccinations.

https://patient.info/doctor/immunisation-schedule-uk

Make it illegal to put the health of the public at risk as well as your own child. Children are not our property and have a right to be protected from negligent behaviour in this respect as they would in any other case putting their health/safety at risk.
Please make vaccination avoidance/refusal punishable by law.
Parents responsible for their children until 18 years of age.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/243402

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