Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to promote recognition of, and publicise information about, the need to care equally for all children subject to violence.

Keeping children safe is a top priority for this government. Nothing is more important that safeguarding children and promoting their welfare.

Alongside the Home Office, the department is tackling the problems that cause children to need help and protection and delivering better and safer outcomes through the government’s Opportunity and Safer Streets missions. As part of this, we will be publishing our government response to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s report on child victims of domestic abuse and our cross-government Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy this autumn.

Our Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, and reforms across education and children’s services, will further protect children at risk of violence and neglect, stopping vulnerable children falling through cracks in services.

Underpinning this, our multi-agency statutory guidance ‘Working together to safeguard children’ and ‘Keeping children safe in education’ set out duties to safeguard all children subject to violence, no matter what challenges they face.

The government’s approach to preventing violence spans family, education and community. We are working closely with the Youth Endowment Fund to promote recognition of and publicise best practice in violence prevention for children and young people.