Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential relationship between adverse childhood experiences and (a) violence perpetration by and (b) victimisation of that child.
The Serious Violence Strategy sets out our assessment of the risk and protective factors which impact on an individual’s likelihood of becoming involved in serious violence as a victim or perpetrator.
The impact of adverse childhood experiences are highlighted within this context and through the Police Transformation Fund the Home Office is providing £7m to the four police forces in Wales and Public Health Wales to develop and test a new approach to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences.