Do not count children in the 2-person limit on meeting for exercise in lockdown

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Expand the rule in England, during lockdown, where a person alone can exercise with "one person from another household", so that "children do not count towards households or numbers when meeting outside" which is the rule in Scotland. The maximum age for a "child" should be at least 13 if not more.

Children of primary school age, and some younger secondary school children depending on the child, cannot meet alone to exercise with one similar-age child, without adults staying, because they are too young to safely do so. This puts children in a worse situation than adults for mental health, even though they are at the lowest risk of all from coronavirus and have already suffered numerous blows to mental health and social/emotional development due to school closures and activities stopping.

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 this petition calling for the same action: Remove children under 12 from the 1 to 1 exercise rule in England

If you want the exemption to apply to children over 11 you could start a new petition requesting this, but it would need to be clear what ages you wanted the exemption to apply to.

Timeline

5 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
13 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 13 Jan 2021

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