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Review the rule of 6 so under 12s are exempt.

Submitted on Friday 11th September 2020

Rejected on Friday 18th September 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Review the rule of 6 so under 12s are exempt.

Petition Details

England should adopt the same measures as Scotland on the rule of 6 so under 12 are exempt.

Additional Information

The rule of 6 so unfairly impacts on families, it essentially means that one family will be unable to meet up with another family for the foreseeable future. When up to 6 people from multiple households can meet as often as they like, it makes no sense that two families cannot meet because in most cases there will be more than 6 people. This will hugely affect parent’s ability to connect with other parents (essential in what is such a difficult and challenging time) and mean that children will be unable to see friends outside of school very easily. This is unfair when the rest of society is able to socialise in groups of six as often as they like.


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This petition was rejected

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 which calls for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550731

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