Rejected petition: Introduce Suzanne’s Law to prevent grooming, exploitation and escalating harm
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Introduce Suzanne’s Law to create a national framework to identify and prevent grooming, coercion, exploitation, abuse and escalating violence, including risks involving trusted people.
Suzanne’s Law should recognise the pathway from grooming and manipulation through isolation, coercion, exploitation and abuse to serious injury, life-threatening harm or death. It should require earlier intervention, information sharing, training and risk assessment, including where perpetrators are trusted people or multiple perpetrators. Agencies should consider patterns rather than isolated incidents, support victims unable to disclose abuse, and ensure warning signs are considered.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action that it is not already taking. We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
There is already a framework for preventing harm to children, including harms such as grooming and exploitation. The framework exists in the form of statutory guidance: Working together to safeguard children https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2
This includes measures such as child protection plans and the child exploitation disruption toolkit. You can find out more about the toolkit here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-exploitation-disruption-toolkit
There is also legislation such as the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, which you may be interested in.
If there is a particular aspect of safeguarding that you are concerned about, you could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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