Pressure groups

• Pressure groups


  groups of people who share a common view about how the law should be changed and may influence parliament
• Fathers4Justice


  Cause group
• Sectional groups


  aim to look after the interests of a particular section of society
• Nation Education Union (NEU)


  Sectional group
• targeting politicians 


  lobbying MPs
• Petition and campaigns


  Jamie Oliver campaigned for healthier meals in school
• Stonewall


  campaigned for an equal age of consent for homosexuals which was achieved by the Sexual Offences(Amendment) Act 2000