Petitions tagged with "Mothers"

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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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• Appoint a Maternity Commissioner to improve maternity care for mums and babies
  Opened on Wednesday 7th January 2026
  154,487 signatures so far

• Fund research into desexed language in women’s health
  Opened on Wednesday 24th December 2025
  7,409 signatures so far

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

• Introduce statutory paid leave for 1 parent if child too ill for school/nursery
  Opened on Friday 19th December 2025
  1,161 signatures so far

• Create a specific offence to prevent harassment of people breastfeeding
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  847 signatures

• Increase Statutory Paternity Leave to a minimum 12 weeks paid leave for fathers
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  576 signatures so far

• Give parents who split up automatic 50/50 shared care of their children
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  388 signatures

• Make sonographers a protected, regulated profession with qualifications & checks
  Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2025
  386 signatures so far

• Increase statutory maternity pay.
  Open from Wednesday 27th November 2024 to Tuesday 27th May 2025
  361 signatures

• Give permits for parent and child bays to stop the misuse of these spaces
  Open from Friday 20th June 2025 to Saturday 20th December 2025
  332 signatures

• Make all grass verge parking illegal
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  265 signatures

• Amend laws on parental titles on birth certificates
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  257 signatures so far

• Increase the statutory paternity leave allowance for fathers of multiple births
  Open from Monday 30th December 2024 to Monday 30th June 2025
  229 signatures

• Stop criminalisation of parents who take children abroad due to domestic abuse
  Opened on Friday 19th December 2025
  227 signatures so far

• Review the family court system for removing children from their guardian
  Open from Wednesday 13th August 2025 to Friday 13th February 2026
  201 signatures

• National service for young men unlikely to finish school and asylum seekers
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  111 signatures

• Regulate doulas and birth keepers
  Open from Wednesday 30th July 2025 to Friday 30th January 2026
  101 signatures

• Family parking space badges for children up to 5 & fines for illegitimate use
  Opened on Thursday 26th February 2026
  92 signatures so far

• Update building regulations to require more women’s toilets in public buildings.
  Opened on Friday 16th January 2026
  90 signatures so far

• Introduce New Safe Haven Law and baby boxes to Save Infants and Support Mothers
  Open from Tuesday 17th December 2024 to Tuesday 17th June 2025
  82 signatures

• Make it a legal offence for a parent to be absent from their child's life.
  Open from Wednesday 11th December 2024 to Wednesday 11th June 2025
  77 signatures

• Allow mothers to stay with children in foster care when parenting isn’t the risk
  Opened on Tuesday 17th March 2026
  77 signatures so far

• Fund improved hospital meals for pregnant women with gestational diabetes
  Opened on Friday 17th April 2026
  75 signatures so far

• Government to provide funding for dedicated care for preterm births
  Opened on Thursday 20th November 2025
  75 signatures so far

• Base childcare support for working parents on household income
  Open from Friday 2nd May 2025 to Sunday 2nd November 2025
  74 signatures

• Extend Mother and Baby Units to admit mothers with babies older than 1 year
  Opened on Monday 16th March 2026
  73 signatures so far

• Make paternity tests compulsory before registering a birth
  Open from Monday 2nd June 2025 to Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  72 signatures

• Review family court legal aid for working mothers who've survived domestic abuse
  Open from Wednesday 24th September 2025 to Tuesday 24th March 2026
  72 signatures

• Apologise to Irish women and their children who were repatriated to Ireland
  Open from Tuesday 7th October 2025 to Tuesday 7th April 2026
  72 signatures

• Fund cervical smear tests for women above age 64
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  71 signatures

• Give father access to birth registration appointment if present at the birth
  Opened on Tuesday 3rd February 2026
  65 signatures so far

• Equalise maternity allowance with statutory pay & don’t reduce Universal Credit
  Open from Wednesday 24th September 2025 to Tuesday 24th March 2026
  60 signatures

• Provide Separate, Compassionate Spaces for NICU Mothers and Pregnancy Loss
  Opened on Tuesday 3rd March 2026
  58 signatures so far

• Make substance use during pregnancy and breastfeeding a specific offence
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  56 signatures

• Make redundancy illegal whilst on maternity leave/for 6 months after
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  52 signatures

• Require mothers to list the father (if known) on birth certificate if safe to do
  Opened on Thursday 18th December 2025
  51 signatures so far

• Fund safe baby boxes for surrendering babies, for mothers & babies in need
  Open from Tuesday 8th July 2025 to Thursday 8th January 2026
  51 signatures

• Extend the time limit for maternity discrimination cases to one year
  Opened on Wednesday 28th January 2026
  48 signatures so far

• Cut income tax by 5% for working parents who are British citizens
  Open from Wednesday 20th August 2025 to Friday 20th February 2026
  48 signatures

• Fund more pregnancy scans past 20 weeks on the NHS
  Open from Wednesday 2nd April 2025 to Thursday 2nd October 2025
  42 signatures

• Automatically grant UK citizenship to people affected by historical unfairness
  Open from Monday 10th November 2025 to Sunday 10th May 2026
  34 signatures

• Introduce a national information campaign informing expectant mothers about CMV
  Opened on Wednesday 21st January 2026
  29 signatures so far

• Ban adoption when birth parents are alive
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  28 signatures

• Fund routine blood test at 6-8 weeks for post partum mothers
  Opened on Wednesday 11th February 2026
  25 signatures so far

• Require schools to accept part-time working requests for people with children
  Opened on Friday 13th March 2026
  18 signatures so far

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