Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care

Make it mandatory for children's social care to record the religion of children

Closed 273 signatures

What the petition asks

I want it to be a regulatory requirement for children's social care to ask children about their religious identity and for them to record the responses accordingly.
I run an independent fostering service and have extensive experience recruiting and supporting Muslim foster carers and adopters. It isn't possible for me to get an accurate figure of how many Muslim children have been placed into non-Muslim adoptive and fostering homes. When I've submitted Freedom of Information requests, many providers say that they don't have the data or it would take them too long to collate the information. Without the data, I can't recruit effectively.

Timeline

23 Oct 2023 Petition opened for signatures
23 Apr 2024 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 273
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 23 Oct 2023
Closed 23 Apr 2024

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