• #optmeoutoflocation tracking by the mobile and Wi-Fi operators
    A location history of your movements for the last year or more is incredibly insightful. Location data can show your sex, your approx age, your home and work addresses, where your children go to school, whether you are ill or becoming ill, how affluent you are (or how much poorer you are becoming), who your friends and family are (or were), your sexual orientation, how fast you drive, your personal preferences and lifestyle and much more. Worse - you really don't know who this data is being sold to or what for. To learn more and how to opt out go to www.optmeoutoflocation.com and sign our petition asking the UK ICO (Information Commissioners Office) to make the mobile and Wi-Fi operators ask our consent before they take and use this data.
    11 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Geoff Revill
  • Sherborne Primary School
    No two schools are alike. But the government doesn't seem to agree. It wants to rush through plans to force every single school in England to become an academy the type of school paid for by taxpayers, but run by businesses, sponsors or trusts. Many teachers and parents are already standing against the plans, saying that they're "a step towards privatisation", ignore local views, and could force some schools to close. One size does not fit all, and local parents and teachers should have a say in the future of our school. ------ If this isn't your local school, click here to sign your local petition, or start one if no-one else has yet: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/start-a-campaign-for-your-school
    361 of 400 Signatures
    Created by Anthony Ingle
  • HMG fulfil pledge of additional NHS GP places by 2020: increase Med Student intake by 5000
    The Government has already committed to an additional 5,000 new GPs by 2020 but is not enabling this to happen: it takes 6 years to train a Medical Student and there is currently a severe shortage: practices cannot recruit due to crisis of supply. Meanwhile the UK's population is increasing daily with economic migrants and refugees & our infrastructure is failing. We have an over reliance on overseas Medical Students and urgently need to increase our intake of UK Medical Students to Universities by extending their intake now.
    65 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Elspeth Gass Picture
  • Greedy Holiday Companies
    My father booked a holiday this time last year for May 2016, but sadly 6 weeks ago was diagnosed with cancer in his throat. He contact first choice who transferred him to many different departments before he was given two choices. The choices were to cancel the holiday, losing a large some of money with the cancellation policy to claim the remaining money through insurance or they would hold the money for a year and he could rebook. My argument is that these travel companies do not know people's financial backgrounds, how long they have been saving or if the person will be able to work again and holding onto nearly £2,000 that possibly will be needed in the following year is greedy. My father has full documentation of treatment and illness so I think companies should allow a full refund! Also, they do apparently have a 'department' for these occasions but are only contactable via email, I emailed them about this 3 weeks ago and have never received anything back!
    13 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Sophie Bryan
  • Stop the Development of High Rise Flats on Chafford Hundred
    Because of existing traffic problems, pollution, lack of schooling, noise and out of design for the existing area.
    844 of 1,000 Signatures
    Created by John Bennett
  • Make July 5th NHS Celebration Day
    The NHS is under fire from its ideological opponents and the media too often carries bad news which are not balanced with stories of its successes. We need to celebrate it being the best in the world
    185 of 200 Signatures
    Created by John Launder
  • Refer to the Living Wage As The So-Called Living Wage
    For the obvious reason that anything that describes itself as a living wage should actually BE a living wage. Otherwise it distorts public perceptions of the extremely important issue of low pay that still adversely affects millions of people in the UK. No government should be allowed to gain political capital by wilfully misusing a term that has a precise and specific meaning. Any increase to the minimum wage is, of course, welcome, but to term something a living wage when it falls considerably short of being one is ultimately counterproductive; it strongly suggests that no further action is required to combat the problem of low pay and that's certainly not the case! You can read more about the difference between the Government's so-called Living Wage and the genuine Living Wage here: http://www.livingwage.org.uk/what-living-wage
    1 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Colleen Hawkins
  • Protect unaccompanied refugee children in Europe
    129 unaccompanied refugee children have gone missing from the Calais 'Jungle' since it was partly demolished in March. 294 lone children remain in the camp, some of whom have a legal right to join family members in the UK. According to Europol, 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees have disappeared in Europe in the past two years. Europe has the resources to safeguard and provide for refugee children living without adult protection within its borders. We cannot stand by and allow these children to fall into the hands of abusers, traffickers or otherwise on our watch. The EU and UK governments must make adequate provision for refugee children who are alone and vulnerable in Europe. Additionally, the UK government must ensure that unaccompanied child refugees with family members in the UK are allowed to join them.
    204 of 300 Signatures
    Created by Louise Burns
  • Means test winter fuel payments
    It is important to start redressing the balance between the benefits enjoyed by older people and those enjoyed by the young, who have suffered many cuts recently. It is also important for winter fuel to be enjoyed by those who need it t heat their homes, and not those who have no difficulty doing so. Winter fuel payment is actually an embarrassment to a lot of wealthy pensioners, many of whom try to return it! Much better that it is claimed by those who need it, not given as a right
    17 of 100 Signatures
    Created by David Lewitt Picture
  • Don't force Springfield Community Primary School to become an academy
    No two schools are alike. But the government doesn't seem to agree. It wants to rush through plans to force every single school in England to become an academy the type of school paid for by taxpayers, but run by businesses, sponsors or trusts. Many teachers and parents are already standing against the plans, saying that they're "a step towards privatisation", ignore local views, and could force some schools to close. One size does not fit all, and local parents and teachers should have a say in the future of our school. ------ If this isn't your local school, click here to sign your local petition, or start one if no-one else has yet: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/start-a-campaign-for-your-school
    53 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Jenny Lindvall
  • Don't force Trinity Road Primary School to become an academy
    No two schools are alike. But the government doesn't seem to agree. It wants to rush through plans to force every single school in England to become an academy the type of school paid for by taxpayers, but run by businesses, sponsors or trusts. Many teachers and parents are already standing against the plans, saying that they're "a step towards privatisation", ignore local views, and could force some schools to close. One size does not fit all, and local parents and teachers should have a say in the future of our school. ------ If this isn't your local school, click here to sign your local petition, or start one if no-one else has yet: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/start-a-campaign-for-your-school
    153 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Joanne Corney
  • Stop the deportation of Refugees & Asylum seekers from Greece and back to Turkey
    These vulnerable people have had to abandon their homes in countries ravaged by wars and the rule of oppressive organisations that have shown little regard to human rights. These people are escaping from those who have readily committed crimes against humanity. They have paid dearly with money and many lost their lives to get this far( Greece). They must not be sent to Turkey, where there's nothing for them but certain slow death. Please SIGN to stop this totally inhumane act , especially against the children and the elderly
    5 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Miqdad Al-Nuaimi