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To include self defence as part of the PE curriculum in secondary school.

Submitted on Friday 26th March 2021

Rejected on Thursday 1st April 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

To include self defence as part of the PE curriculum in secondary school.

Petition Details

Most people are unable to afford self defence classes. If a person with no experience were attacked, they would be panicked or too weak to escape their attacker. With knowledge and experience they would be more confident and less panicked, they would know the right technique to escape to safety.

Additional Information

It’s not necessary for teachers to have a detailed course on self defence, a basic one would suffice. It will be mandatory for all teachers to learn and considered a survival skill like swimming. The course would entail teaching children how to escape different compromising positions an attacker might put them in and run to safety. These lessons could save lives and prevent anybody from feeling powerless in the face of an attack, and any afterward trauma too. Especially for young woman.


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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.

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Mandatory self-defence classes as part of school curriculum
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578987

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