This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition EXCLUDE CHILDREN FROM THE RULE OF 6
Make children in England exempt from the rule of 6 restrictions in line with Scotland and Wales.
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Our children have suffered hugely over the course of the pandemic already, and despite scientific proof of the minimal impact they have in contracting and spreading the virus enabling the reopening of schools and mass mixing, they have been thoughtlessly and unnecessarily grouped in to the new limit of 6 when socialising.
The UK public are not stupid, the rules do not need to be draconian to be understood. Let's have a common sense approach and think of our children!
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.
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We have a number of petitions open which call for exemptions for children of certain ages, which you may like to sign:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550731
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550886
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550865
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550994
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550784
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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