• Local Housing Allowance must Match Housing Costs and Needs
    If you are privately renting and on benefits you will be able to claim Local Housing Allowance (LHA), the problem is that unless you are very lucky it won't cover your rent. Sometimes this is because where you live has been banded with another area where housing is cheaper. The fact that your area, even it is in another town, has higher rental prices won't affect how much you get. The immediate effect is that you will be paying the difference between your allowance and rent out of your other benefits. This means that even if you are disabled and have certain requirements like being on the ground floor, need wheelchair access or need friends or relatives to visit you every day, you are massively disadvantaged by this system. Just imagine if your relative needed your help everyday but couldn't get it because they couldn't afford to live locally or you couldn't find a home that meant you could live independently? If you lived in my town you would receive over £230 less than another town which is just under 4 miles away and is in fact in the same band as another town which is just over 9 miles away. This doesn't make sense does it? This is called the Broad Rental Market Area and it doesn't reflect actual housing costs. Where I live it costs more to rent than in either of these areas! I am asking that you join my campaign to have the local housing allowance banding overhauled and made to reflect local housing costs. This will help people who are already vulnerable, living on benefits and having to pay more for their rent than the current system acknowledges. I am also asking that the LHA does take into account disability needs - currently it does not. Please don't say: It will only go to property investors. Do say: Ask the goverment to make it work fairly.
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    Created by Christine Richardson
  • Petition to change Mental Health Act regarding young people and armed forces
    I am begging you please help me to help get Mental health treatment for Young People. It took two and a half years to get any help for my son. I cannot bring back my baby. He also had six friends who committed suicide, the same year he died. But it's becoming a pandemic all over the UK. I thought this country cared. These people need be be properly trained, like nurses. Private companies need to be QCQ registered and so do mental health charities and crisis houses. These are not regulated by anyone. Why are patients being sent to them? And that's if they get listened to. Unregulated places are the worst for young people. I know I put in grievances due to the way they were being treated and talked about - they were made fun of by crisis teams, managers. Train these people. Save our kids. I refuse to let my son die in vain. Please I Am Begging You to Help me do this for my son and everything young person out there with mental health issues. Help please. I have worked in mental health and seen how they treat young people, or not treat them as in my son's cases. Make them train on wards like nurses have too, make them listen to young people, train them to recognise seriousness of mental health before they work with young people - they are playing with lives. Train them to know how high a dose of medication to give them, what the sedating affects of each medication they give are and how it interacts with other mental health medicines. This is killing young people. Stop the pandemic of young people's deaths, start listening and start doing. Stop judging and picking who they will and will not treat. Stop telling them to take a bath have a cup of tea- these so called experienced workers are pushing our kids over edge. Most important change mental health act regulations regarding young people and listen listen listen to me please Deaths are rising are kids are dying. Been mine, yours could be next please help.
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  • Stop the energy cost rises
    Please sign the petition as it is in all of our interests if we can stop this hike in prices. There will be so many people who literally can’t even scrape together that amount of money and the anxiety this will be causing is unacceptable.
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    Created by Kimberley Houghton
  • Home office charging too much fees for indefinite leave to remain. Fees should be reduced
    So that we can fight a system that discourages people from living in the UK legally.
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    Created by Michael Gyimah
  • Exemption from hosepipe ban for households and individuals growing food
    Growing vegetables by households or individuals, reduces the environmental and carbon footprint of this part of our diet. If effort has already been put into such a garden, it could be wiped out if plants die or suffer as a result of drought. Water used for the production of essential food-stuffs, in such a way as to reduce carbon emissions, should not be rationed in the same way as that used for watering flowers or lawns or filling paddling pools.
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    Created by Sian Charnley
  • We want a general election NOW
    It’s important the people get to vote who we see fit to run the country.
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    Created by Emily Hannah
  • Mandatory Mask wearing in Hospitals and Doctors surgeries
    Covid is still here it hasn't gone away, we need to protect The disabled,vunerable, elderly and keep them safe. The government has the right to change the law back to make face masks mandatory again in Hospitals and Doctors Surgery’s, so they are safe and secure places to go when we need treatment. Please sign my petition.
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  • Tinnitus research
    There are millions of forgotten people suffering from this dreadful condition .
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    Created by frank o'brien
  • Police Brutality & Corruption
    Are they waiting for the next Sarah Everard’s body to be found, taped, murdered, set on fire, cut up & dumped in rubble bags in the woods or are we saying NO to mysoginy, NO to physical & verbal abuse & NO to the Gross Neglect & Harrassment of whistle blowers by both Alan Pughsley & The Conservative PCC since 2015. We demand that both Mr Pughsley & the PCC for Kent are suspended from duties immediately and that aboth a male & female feminist act as interims until the next PCC election & pending the results of the enquiry. If the findings are correct, Pughsley to be stripped of his Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award immediately.
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    Created by Clare Pryke
  • Protect lodgers' deposits and privacy
    With rent prices soaring across the UK, more and more renters are resorting to alternative living arrangements like living with landlords. When you live with a landlord, you have very little rights or protections as a lodger. Landlords can freely find legal loopholes and abuse the system, withholding lodgers' deposits and evicting you with as little as 7 days' notice for practically any reason. My landlord installed cameras around the house without my knowledge and consent, then evicted me after I asked for privacy at home. They threatened to withhold half of a £1200 deposit, even after signing that there were no damages upon checkout. Everyone renting in the UK deserves basic legal protections.
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    Created by Meaghan Li
  • Stop football teams using gambling sponsors
    Because teams need to learn to not use gambling sponsors on there shirts
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    Created by Alex Rust
  • Ask Facebook to put a stop to scam adverts
    Dear Meta, Facebook, Martin Lewis from Money Saving Expert.com has asked you to put a stop to companies who are using his name and image to promote their company website. Despite his request, and also that he doesn't do adverts on Facebook/Meta, you are still allowing those companies to use his name and image. Please put a stop to it now.
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