Petition · past parliament

Any refugee claiming to be a child to have ID, age and criminal conviction tests

Closed 587 signatures

What the petition asks

To safeguard our children, teachers and other school workers (indeed everyone), we are calling for rigorous testing of all refugees claiming to be children.
Dental checks must be carried out to ascertain age and police checks must be carried out for criminal convictions.
There have been cases were some refugees claiming to be children have been proved to be adults. This has had alarming consequences from commission of serious assaults to fraud where the refugee has claimed free education from the UK tax payer.
All UK citizens have a HUMAN RIGHT to be protected by our government and this type of testing will go some way to aiding this.
There is obviously some urgency in the government responding to this and implementing rigorous checks before a tragedy happens.

Timeline

27 Oct 2016 Petition opened for signatures
27 Apr 2017 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 587
Status Closed
Opened 27 Oct 2016
Closed 27 Apr 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.