Have your say on government e-petitions

Smoke alarms should be a legal requirement in homes with children

Submitted on Thursday 7th February 2019

Published on Thursday 21st February 2019

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 21st August 2019

Signatures: 356

Tagged with

Child ~ Children ~ UK

Petition Action

Smoke alarms should be a legal requirement in homes with children

Petition Details

No parent would knowingly risk the life of their child, but too many don't realise the importance of smoke alarms. We continue to read about children perishing and it must stop. Primary Times is campaigning for working smoke alarms to be a legal requirement on every floor in a child's home.

Additional Information

• As reported in the government casualties in fire dataset, published November 2018, over 32% of all fire related incidents indicated no smoke detection present (Source: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/f7ccba2d-f679-46e1-8d6d-de7bee690d40/fire-statistics-fatalities-and-casualties)

• There are 18.9 million family households with children in the UK (source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/bulletins/familiesandhouseholds/2016)


You can't sign this petition because it is now closed. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!

Have your say on this petition!

comments powered by Disqus

repetition.me is a Good Stuff website

18.119.133.228 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:07:34 +0100