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Allow mothers to stay with children in foster care when parenting isn’t the risk

Submitted by Isabel Davies on Monday 9th February 2026

Published on Tuesday 17th March 2026

Current status: Open

Open until: Thursday 17th September 2026

Current Signatures: 77
(count is updated approximately hourly)

Relevant Departments

Tagged with

abuse ~ Anxiety ~ Child ~ Children ~ crisis ~ Domestic ~ Domestic abuse ~ Expand ~ Families ~ Foster ~ Housing ~ keeping ~ Lack ~ Lovely ~ Mothers ~ No Evidence ~ Parent ~ Poorer ~ Pose ~ risk ~ Safeguarding ~ The Mother

Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 77 signatures in total, with signatories from 56 constituencies. That makes it the 1,168th most popular open petition, and the 24,326th most popular of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 21% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of -7% (very low).

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Notes on geography

Signatures by constituency and region don't necessarily add up to the total number of signatures. That's because the petitions system doesn't validate postcodes, and some people mistype them. And without a valid postcode, a signature cannot be allocated to any particular place.

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