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Provide Covid Guidelines -> Care Homes with younger adults Learning Difficulties

Submitted on Thursday 6th May 2021

Rejected on Thursday 13th May 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Provide Covid Guidelines -> Care Homes with younger adults Learning Difficulties

Petition Details

To define separate guidelines around COVID for younger adults with learning difficulties in Care Homes taking into consideration that their needs are very different to the elderly and to recognise that they have rights to a normal life - stop treating them like prisoners.

Additional Information

Young people who live in Care Homes with Complex Needs have been forgotten about when setting up guidelines for COVID. They need to be recognised as a cohort in their who have very different needs to elderly people.

e.g. they are physically more able
no mental capacity to understand why
need to see their families
allowed into the community
are part of society
not to be deprived of their human rights
bring them out of no mans land and give them value


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you are concerned about existing guidance for care homes during the Covid-19 outbreak, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. It's clear you want different guidance to apply to younger people with learning difficulties in care homes, but it's not clear how you want this guidance to differ from existing guidance.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

The Government has published Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for care staff supporting adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults, which might be of interest: www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-supporting-adults-with-learning-disabilities-and-autistic-adults/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-care-staff-supporting-adults-with-learning-disabilities-and-autistic-adults

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