Revoke the right of sex offenders from changing their names

[Delmob40]

Hi Everyone 👋 I've been running a campaign to stop convicted sex offenders from changing their names, along with The Safeguarding Alliance.

With everyone's help we've managed to get over 12,000 signatures 😊 Still got a long way to go to get 100,000 needed to get this debated in parliament.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300705

I've also done an interview with Jason Farrell from Sky News to raise awareness

Any help you can give to raise awareness and share the petition would be very much appreciated.

What people do not realise is, that whist this loophole exists, NO safeguarding check or DBS is worth the paper it is written on 😪

Thank you for keeping up the good fight and helping to protect our kids 😊✊

Would it not be better to have safeguarding checks and DBS use NI numbers instead as that is something that can't already be changed?

Signed and a hopeful bump :)

I had already signed but I have shared it again

@Kpo58

Would it not be better to have safeguarding checks and DBS use NI numbers instead as that is something that can't already be changed?

The Safeguarding Alliance have full proposals here www.thesafeguardingalliance.org.uk/campaign

We're saying that a birth certificate should be shown for safeguarding and DBS checks 👌

Hello, @Delmob40 - we just wanted to let you know that we've now moved your thread over to our Petitions topic.

Thanks.

@LouMumsnet

Hello, *@Delmob40* - we just wanted to let you know that we've now moved your thread over to our Petitions topic.

Thanks.

That's great, thank you 🙏😁

Signed

Thank you to every one of you who are signing and sharing 🙏 every signature is a step closer to the 100,000 needed to get this debated in parliament

Thank you 🙏

Signed.

Signed and shared by me. 15,000 now! Let's make this happen!!'n

Currently standing at 16,439 signatures!!

Thank you, but we need to keep signing and sharing 🙏 100,000 signatures needed to get this debated in parliament

43 days so far waiting for a response from government for hitting 10K

Its just not good enough, we are talking about a serious safeguarding issue, to protect the most vulnerable in our society, our children!

signed. now at 16, 493 signatures

Signed. OP you need to signpost the FWR regulars over here

Apparently I’ve already signed it. I’ll share instead

Signed.

Signed and shared. How the hell is this possible?

@JKRforPM

Signed. OP you need to signpost the FWR regulars over here

@JKRforPM Sorry I'm new to Mumsnet, what does FWR mean 🙈

It’s the feminism chat thread - it used to be called feminism and women’s rights thread so is often called ‘FWR’

You can’t post links to petitions in there but you can post be let everyone know you have a petition and which board it is on

Your urgent helps is needed - we have until 22nd January to get 100k signatures on the petition

Please can you share this far and wide 🙏

I've done another short interview to raise awareness

Sue Reid @DailyMailUK wrote a very detailed article about the vast amount of perpetrators who've abused this loophole already, many more will if it is not closed! t.co/wQ9MFlTHDq

Please sign & share the petition t.co/qLiWnX4xOv 100k signatures needed by 22nd Jan

Predators like this are the very reason this loophole CANNOT persist! Please help us to get 100k signatures by 22nd January
t.co/1K76DRYx2Q

Petition link t.co/qLiWnX4xOv

We now have only 4 days to reach 100k signatures and have this properly debated in parliament.

If you can help by signing and sharing it to as many people, organisations and groups as possible, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you 🙏

Why is this so very important you may ask. Well...

This BBC Radio Five Live report is proof that successive governments have known about convicted sex offenders changing their names by deed poll to evade authorities, wipe their slates clean and re-offend with impunity! They also knew it would mean #sarahslaw and #clareslaw would be ineffective, so long as this loophole exists. Yet they still did nothing!

2010 @BBCRadioFive Investigates sex offenders changing their identities to evade the sex offenders register and undermining #sarahslaw
So why @ukhomeoffice
@HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords @pritipatel are we still having to campaign to close this loophole?
t.co/s6U9X8qBNv

Please help me to change this by signing and sharing the petition - We have only 4 days to reach 100k signatures and have this debated properly in parliament petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300705