Rejected petition: Increase safeguarding standards in Uk schools to support students struggling.
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This petition is to increase safeguarding standards across uk schools including taking measures such as ensuring students understand impacts of issues like bullying and how serious of an issue mental health can be as well as reviewing how schools can improve at dealing with safeguarding issues.
Many pupils at schools rely on staff to provide assistance and support for mental health and other issues they are facing. Unfortunately in many schools students are often dismissed, downplayed and left unheard resulting in worsening mental wellbeing and can even result in long term problems such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders and even self harm or suicide simply due to a lack of support received for a problem, this is why I believe safeguarding around schools should be strengthened.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
We find this petition unclear in respect of exactly what you are asking for - some of the issues mentioned in it are are covered in petitions we already have open, which you may wish to sign:
mental health training for staff
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/752343also wellbeing training
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/752963ones on bullying
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/771099
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766921others relating to pupil welfare/understanding pupils
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751950
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757963We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.