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Allow grassroots football to continue within local communities.

Submitted on Tuesday 3rd November 2020

Rejected on Thursday 19th November 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow grassroots football to continue within local communities.

Petition Details

Grassroots football has been paused due to the impending national lockdown. This is detrimental to children’s physical and mental health.
Whilst schools remain open grassroots football should be allowed to continue with the strict measures already put in place.

Additional Information

Restart grassroots football.

It is well known that outdoor transmission of the Covid 19 is minimal. All grassroots football clubs have strict guidelines & processes in place to keep football safe.

Physical health will be maintained or increased during tighter restrictions

Mental health maintained or increased due to the social aspect of their loved sport.


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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 some of these petitions:

Allow Grassroots football to keep going for juniors: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/557169

Allow outdoor amateur football to continue during lockdown: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/557467

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