Submitted on Monday 2nd November 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 11th November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Provide better support to victims of domestic abuse in second COVID-19 lockdown
The UK government must step up to protect the lives of innocent people that will suffer silently in this next lockdown due to domestic violence.
Please provide refuge and safe spaces for victims and increase funding to overwhelmed frontline charities that are highly under resourced.
Thousands of women, children and men will be trapped in their homes with violent partners or parents this lockdown. Studies have proven that the UK has failed to help these victims and provide a safe place for them to escape to, despite seeing a 300% increase in deaths and domestic violence charities being over capacity.
With shorter days, longer nights, and less patience looming in the air, it is predicted that there will be a sharp rise in abuse, rape and murder in the upcoming months.
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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 some of these petitions:
Fund Council Refuges for victims of domestic violence due to CoViD-19 lockdown: Fund Council Refuges for victims of domestic violence due to CoViD-19 lockdown.
Fund more advertising for helplines for children and domestic violence victims: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314054
Fund increased social services support & emergency accommodation during Covid19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309559
If you would like the Government to take an action not covered by the above petitions, you could start a new petition requesting this, but it would need to be clear what additional action you want the Government to take.
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