Petitions tagged with "Abuse"

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Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.

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• Make verified ID a requirement for opening a social media account.
  Open from Friday 5th March 2021 to Sunday 5th September 2021
  696,955 signatures

• Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data
  Open from Wednesday 16th July 2025 to Friday 16th January 2026
  260,974 signatures

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership
  Opened on Thursday 12th March 2026
  197,043 signatures so far

• Legislate crimes motivated by misogyny are hate crimes, fund support & training
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  113,651 signatures so far

• VALERIE'S LAW Compulsory Training for Agencies Supporting Black DV Victims
  Open from Friday 30th April 2021 to Saturday 30th October 2021
  106,518 signatures

• Protect Retail Workers from Abuse, Threats and Violence.
  Open from Friday 24th July 2020 to Sunday 24th January 2021
  104,354 signatures

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases
  Opened on Tuesday 21st April 2026
  84,185 signatures so far

• Abolish time limits to bring charges for offences for acts of domestic violence
  Open from Tuesday 27th October 2020 to Tuesday 27th April 2021
  64,286 signatures

• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance
  Opened on Tuesday 24th March 2026
  41,109 signatures so far

• Prevent the introduction of any "programmable" CBDC in the UK
  Open from Wednesday 5th October 2022 to Wednesday 5th April 2023
  31,476 signatures

• Launch a Public Inquiry into Grooming Gangs
  Open from Tuesday 4th March 2025 to Thursday 4th September 2025
  30,261 signatures

• Make the sale of catapults/ammunition and carrying catapults in public illegal.
  Open from Wednesday 27th November 2024 to Tuesday 27th May 2025
  24,516 signatures

• Increase minimum and maximum sentences for all sexual offences
  Open from Friday 9th April 2021 to Saturday 9th October 2021
  24,185 signatures

• Independent body to adjudicate on compliance with the Ministerial Code
  Open from Wednesday 2nd December 2020 to Wednesday 2nd June 2021
  22,295 signatures

• Longer sentences for child sex offenders, sex offenders and rapists
  Open from Tuesday 4th August 2020 to Thursday 4th February 2021
  22,121 signatures

• Create a ‘National Sleep Strategy’ to end child bed poverty
  Open from Tuesday 4th January 2022 to Monday 4th July 2022
  18,496 signatures

• Stop Grooming Gang members accessing public funds to fight their convictions
  Open from Tuesday 13th July 2021 to Thursday 13th January 2022
  16,383 signatures

• Impose a lifetime ban on animal ownership for anyone convicted of animal cruelty
  Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
  16,282 signatures

• Add social workers to the professions it is an additional offence to assault
  Open from Thursday 25th March 2021 to Saturday 25th September 2021
  13,927 signatures

• Change law around box junctions to give drivers more leniency
  Open from Monday 6th October 2025 to Monday 6th April 2026
  13,298 signatures

• Require local authorities to fund specific domestic abuse services for women
  Open from Friday 5th March 2021 to Sunday 5th September 2021
  12,918 signatures

• Reinstate the pre-2012 Overseas Domestic Worker visa with a route to settlement
  Open from Thursday 27th August 2020 to Saturday 27th February 2021
  12,726 signatures

• Make it mandatory for Police & CPS to provide counselling to ALL victims of CSA
  Open from Monday 27th June 2022 to Tuesday 10th January 2023
  12,020 signatures

• Make assaulting a security worker a standalone offence
  Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2025
  11,942 signatures so far

• Legislate to enable Councillors to be disqualified or suspended for poor conduct
  Open from Tuesday 25th May 2021 to Thursday 25th November 2021
  11,453 signatures

• Change laws regarding abuse of multiple animals
  Opened on Tuesday 13th January 2026
  11,115 signatures so far

• Review CMS safeguards to prevent financial abuse and coercive control
  Open from Wednesday 24th September 2025 to Tuesday 24th March 2026
  10,720 signatures

• Make disregard for learners' safety an aggravating factor in driving offences
  Open from Friday 27th May 2022 to Sunday 11th December 2022
  10,705 signatures

• Make it a specific criminal offence to assault a highway workers
  Open from Thursday 24th September 2020 to Wednesday 24th March 2021
  7,588 signatures

• Automatically remove parental responsibility for parents convicted of abuse
  Opened on Wednesday 11th March 2026
  7,336 signatures so far

• Impose mandatory 10-year custodial sentences for all child sexual abuse offences
  Open from Thursday 5th November 2020 to Wednesday 5th May 2021
  7,162 signatures

• Legalise pepper spray in England
  Open from Monday 3rd November 2025 to Sunday 3rd May 2026
  6,829 signatures

• Add Assault of a Roadworker to the Crime and Policing Bill
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  6,800 signatures

• Review the police response to assaults on mental health nurses
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  6,727 signatures

• Review the use of force against BAME people by the police
  Open from Thursday 16th July 2020 to Saturday 16th January 2021
  6,528 signatures

• Engage internationally to end bear bile farming
  Open from Thursday 13th August 2020 to Saturday 13th February 2021
  6,469 signatures

• Codify rules for MPs' attendance in Parliament & their constituency in statute
  Opened on Wednesday 15th April 2026
  5,427 signatures so far

• Make it illegal for parents to smack children
  Open from Tuesday 4th January 2022 to Monday 4th July 2022
  5,234 signatures

• Make it mandatory for Police & CPS to provide counselling to ALL victims of CSA
  Open from Friday 28th May 2021 to Sunday 28th November 2021
  5,158 signatures

• Review family court system to help prevent post-separation abuse
  Open from Tuesday 29th July 2025 to Thursday 29th January 2026
  5,022 signatures

• Make assaulting a security worker a standalone offence
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  4,491 signatures

• Make it mandatory for Police & CPS to provide counselling to ALL victims of CSA
  Open from Friday 9th October 2020 to Friday 9th April 2021
  4,226 signatures

• Mandate regular anti-racist training for all teachers
  Open from Tuesday 16th June 2020 to Wednesday 16th December 2020
  3,804 signatures

• Introduce stricter minimum penalties for acts of animal cruelty.
  Open from Wednesday 11th December 2024 to Wednesday 11th June 2025
  3,469 signatures

• Pressure Chinese & Korean governments to end slaughter of cats & dogs for meat
  Open from Tuesday 7th July 2020 to Thursday 7th January 2021
  3,346 signatures

• Make any sexual contact with an animal a criminal offence
  Open from Tuesday 11th August 2020 to Thursday 11th February 2021
  3,289 signatures

• Bring back the Death Penalty for child sexual abuse, rape and murder
  Open from Thursday 7th July 2022 to Saturday 21st January 2023
  3,276 signatures

• Strengthen laws against online abuse and harassment
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  3,070 signatures

• Allow Visa applicants to pay health surcharge in instalments
  Open from Thursday 19th December 2024 to Thursday 19th June 2025
  2,969 signatures

• New legislation; ensure informed consent is always given to avoid patient harm.
  Open from Monday 11th November 2024 to Sunday 11th May 2025
  2,966 signatures

• Automatically remove passports for people found guilty of child sexual offences
  Open from Monday 13th December 2021 to Monday 13th June 2022
  2,864 signatures

• Review how domestic abuse cases are investigated and prosecuted.
  Open from Thursday 31st December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  2,677 signatures

• Make unreasonable parent alienation a criminal offence.
  Open from Tuesday 9th June 2020 to Wednesday 9th December 2020
  2,615 signatures

• Ban the use of aversive dog training tools
  Open from Monday 23rd June 2025 to Tuesday 23rd December 2025
  2,397 signatures

• Introduce mandatory life sentences for child sex offences
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  2,325 signatures

• Ban the Slaughter of Animals for Meat As Soon As Possible
  Open from Monday 11th October 2021 to Monday 11th April 2022
  2,181 signatures

• End Forced Adoption
  Open from Friday 11th September 2020 to Thursday 11th March 2021
  2,169 signatures

• Make reproductive coercion a standalone criminal offence
  Opened on Monday 30th March 2026
  2,120 signatures so far

• Hold a public inquiry into historic Child Sexual Exploitation in Blackpool
  Open from Friday 4th November 2022 to Thursday 4th May 2023
  2,104 signatures

• Stop the Early Release of all Domestic Abusers Under the SDS40 Scheme
  Open from Thursday 21st November 2024 to Wednesday 21st May 2025
  2,077 signatures

• Require child sexual abuse to be reported with penalties for failure to do so
  Open from Monday 21st September 2020 to Sunday 21st March 2021
  1,986 signatures

• Review how Home Office deals with applications for ILR due to domestic violence
  Open from Wednesday 26th February 2025 to Tuesday 26th August 2025
  1,980 signatures

• Introduce Legislation to make Verbal Abuse toward Police Officers an offence
  Opened on Thursday 16th April 2026
  1,964 signatures so far

• Strengthen protection of DA victims and how their testimony is treated in court
  Opened on Monday 16th March 2026
  1,781 signatures so far

• Mandatory trauma-informed training and standards in the family courts service
  Opened on Thursday 4th December 2025
  1,739 signatures so far

• Defund and abolish CAFCASS
  Open from Wednesday 2nd September 2020 to Tuesday 2nd March 2021
  1,629 signatures

• Implement compulsory neutering and spaying of all pet cats.
  Open from Tuesday 6th December 2022 to Tuesday 6th June 2023
  1,611 signatures

• Hold public inquiry on safeguarding system and training in family courts
  Opened on Wednesday 14th January 2026
  1,580 signatures so far

• Fund support schemes for survivors of Child Sex Abuse
  Open from Tuesday 19th April 2022 to Wednesday 2nd November 2022
  1,530 signatures

• Provide funding to make 25% of all public loos stoma friendly
  Opened on Wednesday 21st January 2026
  1,502 signatures so far

• Fund & provide services to allow the vulnerable to shield & re-open the economy
  Open from Wednesday 30th September 2020 to Tuesday 30th March 2021
  1,494 signatures

• Require the NHS to provide single-sex psychiatric wards including intake wards
  Open from Wednesday 19th August 2020 to Friday 19th February 2021
  1,487 signatures

• Prohibit police officers from having sexual relationships while undercover
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  1,481 signatures

• 30 Mile Law – Restraining Orders to protect survivors of abuse
  Open from Friday 16th April 2021 to Saturday 16th October 2021
  1,480 signatures

• Make it mandatory for Police & CPS to provide counselling to ALL victims of CSA
  Open from Tuesday 14th December 2021 to Tuesday 14th June 2022
  1,477 signatures

• Make non-payment of child maintenance a criminal offence
  Open from Wednesday 24th November 2021 to Tuesday 24th May 2022
  1,467 signatures

• Sanction Israeli individuals and businesses over treatment of Palestinians
  Open from Monday 17th May 2021 to Wednesday 17th November 2021
  1,444 signatures

• Make one-to-one mentoring a statutory right for children in care & care leavers
  Opened on Wednesday 1st April 2026
  1,421 signatures so far

• Lower the age that someone can be considered a victim of domestic abuse
  Open from Tuesday 4th February 2025 to Monday 4th August 2025
  1,415 signatures

• Introduce breeder licences, a dog database & harsher punishments for dog abuse
  Open from Thursday 5th December 2024 to Thursday 5th June 2025
  1,348 signatures

• Extend the law on coercive control to cover post-separation abuse
  Open from Friday 28th August 2020 to Sunday 28th February 2021
  1,322 signatures

• Reinstate study visas for Sudanese students and fully protect their education
  Opened on Wednesday 8th April 2026
  1,318 signatures so far

• Act to prevent online racial abuse
  Open from Thursday 20th August 2020 to Saturday 20th February 2021
  1,207 signatures

• Establish a mandatory licensing system for animal rescue homes
  Open from Thursday 25th February 2021 to Wednesday 25th August 2021
  1,200 signatures

• Create a public register of domestic violence/abuse offenders
  Open from Thursday 11th March 2021 to Saturday 11th September 2021
  1,182 signatures

• Review social security benefits paid to polygamous families
  Open from Wednesday 23rd September 2020 to Tuesday 23rd March 2021
  1,106 signatures

• Create a public register of domestic abuse offenders
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  1,097 signatures

• Make all restraining orders permanent
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  1,089 signatures

• Require DBS checks for all staff in Soft Play centres.
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  1,060 signatures so far

• Apply the Human Rights Act retrospectively
  Open from Monday 8th September 2025 to Sunday 8th March 2026
  1,054 signatures

• Make parental alienation a criminal offence
  Open from Tuesday 5th January 2021 to Monday 5th July 2021
  1,024 signatures

• Create new body to oversee and sanction MPs for dishonesty
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  922 signatures

• Change the law to treat child porn as child sexual abuse
  Open from Tuesday 1st September 2020 to Monday 1st March 2021
  914 signatures

• Require CCTV in all early years settings
  Opened on Tuesday 16th December 2025
  906 signatures so far

• Ban commercial donkey rides
  Open from Thursday 21st July 2022 to Saturday 4th February 2023
  881 signatures

• Bring back the death penalty for certain offences including murder
  Open from Monday 17th May 2021 to Wednesday 17th November 2021
  880 signatures

• Require people to have a criminal record check to open a social media account.
  Open from Wednesday 2nd February 2022 to Tuesday 2nd August 2022
  860 signatures

• Automatic Clare's law checks when notice of marriage is given to registry office
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  850 signatures so far

• Make Emotional and Psychological Abuse of Children a Specific criminal Offence
  Open from Thursday 31st December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  842 signatures

• Review Dangerous Dog Act 1991 and bring in dog ownership license and dog tagging
  Opened on Tuesday 17th March 2026
  817 signatures so far

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