Rejected petition Reduce or Discount Fuel for all Domiciliary Care Workers.

Rejected on 21 June 2022

Reduce or Discount Fuel for all Domiciliary Care Workers.

Carers are unable to afford the fuel to work in domiciliary care due rising costs. It is resulting in staff leaving and In turn making the care sector struggle even more. Carers are using at least 1/4 of their wages each month to use on Fuel.. to work.

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.

The Government isn't directly responsible for the cost of fuel, but you may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/618038

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.