Petition · past parliament · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Allow families with under-5s arriving from red list countries to home quarantine

Closed 172 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government requires anyone travelling from a red-list country to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.
The Government should instead allow families with children under 5 to quarantine at home, so long as they take part in compulsory Covid testing, spot checking and compulsory daily lateral-flow testing.

A hotel quarantine for children under 5, to live (eat hotel food, sleep, play, clean etc) in 4 walls for 10 days, could be traumatising, insensitive and very sad. It could have a long-term negative impact on the children. This can easily be avoided and still mitigating the risks of Covid by allowing home quarantine.

Timeline

18 May 2021 Petition opened for signatures
18 Nov 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 172
Status Closed
Department Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Opened 18 May 2021
Closed 18 Nov 2021

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