Make parents accountable of children under 18 and fine them.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

To bring in legislation and that law that parents will be held accountable and fined for their children’s bad behaviour and criminal actions in public.

With the scourge of anti social behaviour in community’s and some children under the age of 18 behaving in a feral manner with disregard for law and consequences, we need some form of deterrent that will have parents making sure their children behave better in society and fining parents should help make parents control their unruly children more so the law abiding citizens don’t suffer in community’s at the hands of feral yobs.

Why it was rejected

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

There are already provisions for parents of offenders under the age of 18 to pay fines in relation to offences committed by their children. These are set out in the Sentencing Act 2020.

Decisions about whether to impose a fine for offences committed by under 18s are a matter for the courts.

Timeline

27 Apr 2023	Petition opened for signatures
2 May 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 2 May 2023

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