Petition · past parliament
Ban the manufacturing and sale of cot bumpers illegal.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
Cot bumpers are a piece of material made to tie around the head of a infants bed, this supposedly protects them. Cot bumpers are available from stores such as mothercare and M&P. They have been a reason infants have lost their lives either from suffocation or strangulation. Please help stop this.
Lullabytrust:
https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/parents-should-remove-cot-bumpers/
Prestons story:
https://kidsindanger.org/family-voices/preston/
Stores such as mothercare are still selling these death traps, and with the incorrect sleeping advise to go with it. They are using SIDS as a way to scare parents into buying their products, this is not ok. Using the term co-sleeping to describe bed sharing when co-sleeping is sharing a room with baby which is thought to reduce SIDS.
https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/parents-should-remove-cot-bumpers/
Prestons story:
https://kidsindanger.org/family-voices/preston/
Stores such as mothercare are still selling these death traps, and with the incorrect sleeping advise to go with it. They are using SIDS as a way to scare parents into buying their products, this is not ok. Using the term co-sleeping to describe bed sharing when co-sleeping is sharing a room with baby which is thought to reduce SIDS.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 22 Jan 2019 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 28 Jan 2019 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
28 Jan 2019
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.