Submitted on Saturday 17th May 2014
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Do not privatise child protection services
According to the BBC, the Department for Education has been looking at proposals to privatise child protection services, by allowing local authorities to contract out provision to private firms.
The signatories of this petition believe that it is the duty of the State to protect children and that this duty is not transferable because a private company's primary duty is to make profits for its shareholders. This conflict of interest is not appropriate when the wellbeing of children is at stake.
The signatories therefore call on the Department for Education to immediately abandon their plan to allow local authorities to contract out child protection services.
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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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