{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/52509.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":52509,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"A dedicated department responsible for investigating neglect or abuse of children within institutions including schools, religions and care homes.","background":null,"additional_details":"We need a dedicated dept within the government that will investigate any suspected case of child neglect/abuse. Schools have nothing in place to investigate internal management. A pilot scheme run under the Local Government Ombudsman has been discontinued leaving our children open to neglect by unmonitored head teachers & governors. Priests that abuse children are often moved from church to church with investigations kept internal & with no action taken to protect the abused. As part of religious rituals girls undergo circumcision where their genitals are mutilated. In our country this is illegal & yet nobody investigates or presses charges. Children are abused in care homes up & down the country & yet they have few routes for confiding in someone they trust. Evidence is often 'lost' & they receive no long term aftercare for their horrific ordeals that bring lifelong emotional/physiological damage. Social Services are overstretched & often say they have no jurisdiction in these cases.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2013-07-08T21:16:02.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:29:15.062Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:41:57.145Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2013-07-08T21:16:02.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}