Allow children to play sports across the same tiers irrespective of county

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

Change the rules so that both children under 18 and coaches can train and play sports (which are currently permitted) in Tier 4 across all counties with the same tier.

Currently, no coaches or participants can cross counties to train or play sports despite being in the same tier. This is ludicrous and so many children are missing out on outdoor sports which pose minimal threat to the transmission of the virus. Teams are being able to travel 20-30 miles across the same county but members cannot go across the border only a few miles away. As long as they are within the same tier, and precautions taken, all coaches and participants should be able to travel for training and playing as before.

Why it was rejected

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

Since you started your petition the tier system has been replaced with a national lockdown, but we have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

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

Timeline

31 Dec 2020	Petition opened for signatures
6 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 6 Jan 2021

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