Submitted on Friday 11th September 2020
Rejected on Friday 18th September 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Change England’s ‘rule of six’ to exclude young children
Boris Johnson should follow Scotland and Wales' lead and make young children exempt from England’s ‘rule of six’. The rate of infection has remained very low among younger children, despite rising among teenagers and adults.
Including young children within this rule puts a disproportionate burden on families and is damaging to a segment of the population that has already missed out on months of normal social interaction and learning during lockdown.
Families will be unable to meet together without making multiple trips in smaller groups, potentially increasing the overall risk. Meanwhile allowing people from six different households to meet together inside is more likely to increase the spread of coronavirus.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
It isn't clear what you mean by 'young children'.
We have a number of petitions open which call for exemptions for children of certain ages, which you may like to sign:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550731
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550886
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550865
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550994
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550784
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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