Petitions tagged with "Parent"

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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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• End child food poverty – no child should be going hungry
  Open from Wednesday 14th October 2020 to Wednesday 14th April 2021
  1,113,889 signatures

• 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

• Automatically suspend PR rights of parent guilty of murdering the other parent.
  Open from Tuesday 19th April 2022 to Wednesday 2nd November 2022
  130,179 signatures

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth
  Opened on Friday 10th April 2026
  110,587 signatures so far

• New Disclosure and Safeguarding Mechanism for At-Risk Children
  Open from Tuesday 5th August 2025 to Thursday 5th February 2026
  110,021 signatures

• Raise Bereavement Support Payment and extend beyond 18 months
  Opened on Thursday 8th January 2026
  36,346 signatures so far

• Introduce super visa category for parents of British citizens.
  Open from Friday 2nd October 2020 to Friday 2nd April 2021
  20,688 signatures

• Change legal definition of stillborn to include all delivered babies
  Open from Friday 13th May 2022 to Sunday 27th November 2022
  20,225 signatures

• Make self-employed people eligible for statutory adoption pay
  Open from Tuesday 23rd November 2021 to Monday 23rd May 2022
  16,794 signatures

• Keep the £20pw Universal Credit lifeline and extend to those on legacy benefits
  Open from Thursday 4th February 2021 to Wednesday 4th August 2021
  13,034 signatures

• Give children and parents automatic rights to equal contact after separation
  Open from Thursday 22nd October 2020 to Thursday 22nd April 2021
  12,397 signatures

• Require the use of sexed language in government-funded health communications
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  12,134 signatures

• Funding for ventilation in all school/college/uni classrooms
  Open from Monday 23rd August 2021 to Wednesday 23rd February 2022
  11,708 signatures

• Add content on death, dying and bereavement to the national curriculum
  Open from Monday 10th October 2022 to Monday 10th April 2023
  11,322 signatures

• Provide dairy-free alternatives as part of the national milk scheme for under 5s
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  10,445 signatures

• Require NHS to offer routine third trimester pregnancy ultrasound scan
  Opened on Monday 23rd March 2026
  8,213 signatures so far

• Allow families with a disabled child over age 5 to form a support bubble
  Open from Friday 4th December 2020 to Friday 4th June 2021
  7,881 signatures

• Allow both members of all same-sex female couples to be on the birth certificate
  Open from Monday 16th November 2020 to Sunday 16th May 2021
  6,484 signatures

• Petition for Parent/Child Parking Badges for children up to age 13
  Open from Wednesday 17th September 2025 to Tuesday 17th March 2026
  6,454 signatures

• Ensure people whose parent had breast cancer under 45 can access genetic testing
  Opened on Wednesday 8th April 2026
  4,986 signatures so far

• Change the way child benefit high income tax is calculated to total income
  Open from Wednesday 21st December 2022 to Wednesday 21st June 2023
  4,401 signatures

• Exempt all nurseries from Employer NI Contributions
  Open from Wednesday 26th March 2025 to Friday 26th September 2025
  4,310 signatures

• Make mental health support standard for parents of seriously ill children
  Opened on Friday 21st November 2025
  3,701 signatures so far

• Exempt all military families from school fines — let them be with family.
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  3,574 signatures so far

• Statutory paid leave for parents whose child is undergoing cancer treatment
  Opened on Monday 30th March 2026
  3,065 signatures so far

• Require inquests into the death of a child by suicide to be private
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  3,030 signatures

• Review children's critical care decision law
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  2,914 signatures

• Make Male Genital Mutilation (Circumcision) an offence unless medically required
  Open from Monday 18th October 2021 to Monday 18th April 2022
  2,592 signatures

• Review accountability for incorrect decisions regarding the removal of a child
  Open from Monday 20th October 2025 to Monday 20th April 2026
  2,585 signatures

• Stop Unregistered Pedigree Cat Breeding. Coco’s Law.
  Open from Wednesday 21st October 2020 to Wednesday 21st April 2021
  2,246 signatures

• Exclude overtime and bonuses from income to calculate child maintenance payment
  Open from Thursday 26th November 2020 to Wednesday 26th May 2021
  2,178 signatures

• Increase funding for local authorities to assess and support Autistic children
  Open from Monday 17th May 2021 to Wednesday 17th November 2021
  2,175 signatures

• Review child maintenance service (CMS) process for accepting reduced payments
  Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2025
  2,158 signatures so far

• Introduce a statutory bereavement policy into primary and secondary schools.
  Open from Friday 18th December 2020 to Friday 18th June 2021
  1,829 signatures

• Calculate child maintenance based on actual child expenses
  Open from Tuesday 15th June 2021 to Wednesday 15th December 2021
  1,684 signatures

• Reopen application pathway of BN(O)
  Open from Friday 8th January 2021 to Thursday 8th July 2021
  1,515 signatures

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

• Keep Care Leavers Digitally Connected
  Open from Monday 21st September 2020 to Sunday 21st March 2021
  1,450 signatures

• Increase the £100k childcare income cap in line with inflation
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  1,383 signatures so far

• Extend UK statutory paternity leave to six weeks
  Open from Monday 17th May 2021 to Wednesday 17th November 2021
  1,353 signatures

• Require labels saying "may contain" an allergen list the specific allergen
  Open from Monday 6th September 2021 to Sunday 6th March 2022
  1,309 signatures

• Require all educational settings to have a bereavement policy
  Open from Tuesday 16th November 2021 to Monday 16th May 2022
  1,288 signatures

• Make parental alienation a criminal offence
  Open from Thursday 19th May 2022 to Saturday 3rd December 2022
  1,259 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

• Fund more support for expectant parents who have suffered with baby loss
  Open from Wednesday 21st July 2021 to Friday 21st January 2022
  1,135 signatures

• First aid kits a legal requirement for public use at public venues
  Open from Wednesday 20th August 2025 to Friday 20th February 2026
  1,105 signatures

• Allow widowed/single parents of British Citizens to live in the UK as dependants
  Open from Friday 7th May 2021 to Sunday 7th November 2021
  1,103 signatures

• Require schools to allow children to wear shorts and skirts in hot weather
  Open from Thursday 23rd June 2022 to Friday 6th January 2023
  1,067 signatures

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

• Change the way child maintenance is worked out - base on income after deductions
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  957 signatures

• Commit to not removing the presumption of parental involvement
  Open from Tuesday 20th May 2025 to Thursday 20th November 2025
  920 signatures

• Legally require absent parents to undertake medical testing if child is unwell
  Opened on Friday 8th May 2026
  907 signatures so far

• Stop Deduction from Earnings Orders (DEO) for child maintenance debts
  Open from Thursday 28th July 2022 to Saturday 11th February 2023
  886 signatures

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

• Enable Ukrainian children without passports to enter UK without attending a VAC
  Open from Thursday 31st March 2022 to Friday 14th October 2022
  823 signatures

• Give all parents the legal right to participate in their child’s funeral
  Opened on Friday 12th December 2025
  822 signatures so far

• Fund additional support for children during the EHCP assessment process
  Open from Tuesday 24th January 2023 to Monday 24th July 2023
  821 signatures

• Legal default of equal shared care for children upon separation.
  Open from Tuesday 14th December 2021 to Tuesday 14th June 2022
  813 signatures

• Scrap plans to write off historic child support debts.
  Open from Monday 22nd February 2021 to Sunday 22nd August 2021
  812 signatures

• Create targeted support for children of parents with a mental illness
  Open from Tuesday 1st March 2022 to Thursday 1st September 2022
  782 signatures

• Fund at least one round of IVF regardless of partner's children
  Open from Friday 15th January 2021 to Thursday 15th July 2021
  754 signatures

• Urgently review policy on Ukrainian children seeking to enter UK from Ukraine
  Open from Wednesday 8th June 2022 to Thursday 22nd December 2022
  736 signatures

• Change the way child maintenance is worked out - base on income after deductions
  Open from Tuesday 19th April 2022 to Wednesday 2nd November 2022
  734 signatures

• Impose financial penalties when parent is killed due to dangerous driving
  Opened on Tuesday 7th April 2026
  712 signatures so far

• Make parental alienation a criminal offence
  Open from Wednesday 5th February 2025 to Tuesday 5th August 2025
  691 signatures

• Change rules so parents with 50/50 shared care don’t pay child maintenance
  Open from Tuesday 19th November 2024 to Monday 19th May 2025
  669 signatures

• Stop bonuses and overtime being included in child maintenance calculations.
  Open from Tuesday 2nd November 2021 to Monday 2nd May 2022
  649 signatures

• Make piercing children’s ears under the age of 5 illegal
  Open from Thursday 26th August 2021 to Saturday 26th February 2022
  642 signatures

• Allow children of dependent parents of an EU citizen sponsor to come to the UK
  Open from Wednesday 13th April 2022 to Thursday 27th October 2022
  607 signatures

• Reform child maintenance rules for parents who receive and pay maintenance
  Open from Thursday 21st April 2022 to Friday 4th November 2022
  579 signatures

• Legalise adult adoption
  Open from Friday 8th November 2024 to Thursday 8th May 2025
  579 signatures

• Fund state support for young people aged 18-25 who leave the care system
  Opened on Monday 30th March 2026
  570 signatures so far

• Allow parents to take their children out of school for 5 school days in a year
  Open from Monday 16th June 2025 to Tuesday 16th December 2025
  561 signatures

• Suspend parental rights when arrested on suspicion of murdering the child
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  560 signatures

• Exclude children under 12 months from the social distancing rules in England
  Open from Thursday 17th September 2020 to Wednesday 17th March 2021
  549 signatures

• Make all households with income under £200,000 eligible for free childcare
  Open from Thursday 6th February 2025 to Wednesday 6th August 2025
  547 signatures

• Reform Calculations for Child Maintenance where the child stays with the NRP
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  529 signatures

• Fund more support for parents who have lost a child through an unexplained death
  Open from Friday 29th October 2021 to Friday 29th April 2022
  521 signatures

• Single parents with adult learning disabled children be allowed to form a bubble
  Open from Friday 6th November 2020 to Thursday 6th May 2021
  499 signatures

• Remove parental responsibility from people convicted of DV with 10+ yr sentence
  Open from Friday 15th August 2025 to Sunday 15th February 2026
  457 signatures

• Make legal aid available to all parents seeking access to children
  Open from Friday 4th February 2022 to Thursday 4th August 2022
  432 signatures

• Grant Legal Guardians rights to paid parental leave
  Open from Wednesday 10th February 2021 to Tuesday 10th August 2021
  415 signatures

• Collect and publish data on how many children lose a parent to suicide
  Open from Friday 21st January 2022 to Thursday 21st July 2022
  392 signatures

• 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

• End the practice of 'forced adoption' via the family court system
  Open from Monday 24th January 2022 to Sunday 24th July 2022
  377 signatures

• Add parental alienation to the curriculum with mandatory training for teachers
  Open from Wednesday 10th March 2021 to Friday 10th September 2021
  362 signatures

• Give families an additional tax-free allowance for each child
  Opened on Monday 26th January 2026
  362 signatures so far

• Make Inclusive Playgrounds Mandatory in All New and Upgraded Parks
  Opened on Monday 16th February 2026
  359 signatures so far

• Introduce a Presumption of Equal Parenting Time in Family Law
  Opened on Friday 28th November 2025
  352 signatures so far

• Automatic ban of abusers' custody of children bereaved by domestic abuse suicide
  Opened on Thursday 20th November 2025
  347 signatures so far

• Automatically suspend PR when a parent is convicted of child murder/serious harm
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  343 signatures so far

• Base the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) threshold on household income
  Open from Friday 24th October 2025 to Friday 24th April 2026
  339 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

• Increase free childcare for working parents with children under school age
  Open from Tuesday 28th June 2022 to Wednesday 11th January 2023
  331 signatures

• Review and reform child custody arrangements
  Open from Monday 24th February 2025 to Sunday 24th August 2025
  321 signatures

• Reform child maintenance to consider income and outgoings of both parents
  Open from Thursday 11th August 2022 to Saturday 25th February 2023
  295 signatures

• Reform child maintenance – flat rates per child per night
  Open from Friday 20th November 2020 to Thursday 20th May 2021
  287 signatures

• Make parental alienation a criminal offence
  Opened on Wednesday 10th December 2025
  286 signatures so far

• Fund a free, nationwide 'Parental Control App' to keep all children safe online
  Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
  278 signatures

• Launch a review into student finance maintenance loan thresholds
  Opened on Thursday 18th December 2025
  269 signatures so far

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