Petition · past parliament · Department for Education

Require all social services workers to wear body cameras

Closed 240 signatures

What the petition asks

To make it a legal requirement for social services to wear body cameras so all their activities, including the conduct of assessments, are recorded. This should help ensure reports given to a court are accurate and can’t be falsified, and any orders made are not based on hearsay or inaccurate facts.
This should help ensure orders to remove children are not made on the basis of inaccurate testimony. To protect families from false allegations and also to help ensure social services are complying with the standards expected of them. Body cameras should help ensure courts to have the proof they need to protect the most vulnerable from harm, but prevent children being removed from homes without reason or evidence to do so.

Timeline

23 Aug 2023 Petition opened for signatures
23 Feb 2024 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 240
Status Closed
Department Department for Education
Opened 23 Aug 2023
Closed 23 Feb 2024

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