Submitted on Monday 20th December 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 22nd December 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop parents denying access to grandchildren
Amend the Children’s Act to extend rights to grandparents to have access to grandchildren. Where grandparents are forced to make an application for permission to seek access, contact should continue, unless there are safeguarding concerns. To undertake consultation with grandparents denied access.
An estimated 1.4 million grandparents, 2 million children in UK are denied loving relationships. A survey of 2,000 grandparents shows 1 in 7 were intentionally frozen out due to family breakdowns. We have examples of grandparents accused of harassment and being taken to police stations in some cases for sending cards/gifts, to grandchildren. In tragic cases of Arthur & Star, grandparents' concerns were ignored.
Our Change.org petition received over 650 signatures in the first 48 hours.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
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.
You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/600326
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