Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a legal definition of child-to-parent abuse.

Tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a top priority for this Government and our mission is to halve VAWG within a decade. To achieve this ambitious aim, it is essential that we tackle domestic abuse and all forms of interpersonal abuse. The Home Office is working closely with other Government departments to develop plans to deliver on this ambition and deliver a transformative change to society, and will publish a cross-government VAWG Strategy later this year.

This Government will only succeed if we continue to ensure children and young people are also at the heart of prevention and intervention programmes and policies. Progressing work around child-to-parent abuse is an important part of this. A consultation into the definition of child-to-parent abuse closed in February 2024. The responses are currently being considered and will inform the detail of future work, but child-to-parent abuse does fall under the domestic abuse definition.