Tie children's grassroots sport lockdown status during COVID-19 to schools.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Sport is an important influence in children's lives. It helps promote: positive body image, physical and cardiovascular fitness, mental health, and positive life choices. The government needs to help young people grow and prosper by allowing them to play sport as long as it is safe to go to school.

The government's own scientific data point out that mental and physical health are in a critical state within the school-aged population across the UK. With the added stress of Coronavirus in young people's lives, exercise and positive social interactions are more important than ever. Scientific data from SAGE also point out that transmission rates amongst youth are low; therefore, if schools are deemed safe, there is no increased risk of transmission during outdoor sporting pursuits.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Allow outdoor grassroot youth sport to continue during national lockdowns: Allow outdoor grassroot youth sport to continue during national lockdowns

Allow all youth sport to continue during lockdowns: Allow all youth sport to continue during lockdowns

We also couldn't publish a petition that contained unsubstantiated statements that allowing outdoor youth sport wouldn't increase the risk of transmission of Covid-19.

Timeline

2 Nov 2020	Petition opened for signatures
19 Nov 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 19 Nov 2020

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