Give social service workers the power to make arrests.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

I would like to propose the idea that social care workers are given the power to make arrests on the suspicion of child abuse/neglect/maltreatment.

Social care workers should be given the power to arrest people on suspicion of child abuse. Far too many children are failed by this service resulting in traumatic affects on life quality sometimes fatality. I have witnessed first hand the affects of both child abuse and poor social service work. No child deserve to be abuse or neglected by their caregiver or to be failed by the system. Social care workers should be prosecuted with the abusers if they have not worked the case effectively.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

Social workers already have a power of arrest under the general provisions of s24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE):
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/24A

Section 24A sets out when a ‘person other than a constable’ can make an arrest without a warrant – what’s commonly known as a ‘citizens arrest’.

The Ask The Police website gives a brief summary of how s24A works:
https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q508.htm

Timeline

22 Oct 2021	Petition opened for signatures
8 Nov 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 8 Nov 2021

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