Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Justice data lab statistics: April 2024Found: the person and had an intervention programme that addressed issues of violence, anger management and victims
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: ESFA funding agreements and contracts 2024 to 2025Found: "Working Day" a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for domestic business
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Building a New Scotland: Justice in an independent ScotlandFound: Abuse (Scotland) Act 201823 that makes psychological domestic abuse and controlling behaviour a crime
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: April 2024Found: of homicide Crime in General | 7 ▶* New * Decrease in recorded domestic abuse incidents.
Correspondence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: Correspondence from the Minister for Victims and Safeguarding, relating to the escalation of violence
Apr. 24 2024
Source Page: Roundtable on the end point for anonymity for child victimsFound: Roundtable on the end point for anonymity for child victims
Mentions:
1: McCall, Roz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) Domestic abuse in relationships involving young people can present in complex ways and understanding - Speech Link
2: Don, Natalie (SNP - Renfrewshire North and West) Nonetheless, the impact of domestic abuse forms an important part of existing trauma training for panel - Speech Link
3: Rennie, Willie (LD - North East Fife) That is an essential element for victims who may have experienced domestic abuse or antisocial behaviour - Speech Link
4: McCall, Roz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) Domestic abuse may continue overtly or covertly at different stages of a relationship and beyond, perhaps - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) abuse or significant hazards within the property. - Speech Link
2: None abuse, the death of a tenant or a serious hazard being present in the property. - Speech Link
3: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) properties while avoiding liability for rent repayment orders, without penalising those who are innocent victims - Speech Link
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing new policies to help improve protection for people at risk of domestic homicide in all regions.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
In the 2022 Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan the government outlined a package of measures to reduce domestic homicides and reform the Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) process.
DHRs are reviews into deaths related to domestic abuse which seek to identify what lessons can be learnt and implemented to prevent future deaths.
In June 2023, we launched the online DHR Library to help ensure police and partners have easy access to material to learn from previous homicides and prevent future deaths linked to domestic abuse.
The implementation of reforms to DHRs will improve our understanding and drive down the frequency of domestic homicides.
The Home Office also funds the collection of data on deaths related to domestic abuse through the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Domestic Homicide Project. The project brings together data and information on prior agency knowledge of victims and risk factors to improve the evidence base and subsequent policy responses for preventing domestic homicides.
To gain protection from domestic abuse a protective order can be applied for. Police can apply for a Domestic Violence Protection Order, victims can apply for a Non-Molestation Order and criminal courts can impose a Restraining Order on acquittal or conviction of a criminal offence. The introduction of the new Domestic Abuse Protection Notice and Order, will help simplify and strengthen the protection for victims avaliable, introducing new features like mandatory notification requirements and electronic monitoring (“tagging”). The new order will be piloted in Greater Manchester, the London Boroughs of Croydon, Sutton, and Bromley, and with the British Transport Police.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to (a) assess and (b) improve the effectiveness of existing legal measures designed to protect (a) minority ethnic women and (b) all people from domestic abuse.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The government has taken a number of measures to strengthen legislation and protections for victims of domestic abuse.
This includes the measures set out in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which is helping transform our response to victims and bring perpetrators to justice.
Controlling or Coercive Behaviour within an intimate or family relationship was made a criminal offence under the Serious Crime Act 2015. The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 removed the requirement for the parties to be ‘living together’ for the offence to occur, meaning it applies to intimate partners, ex-partners or family members, regardless of whether the victim and perpetrator live together.
The Domestic Abuse statutory guidance contains detailed sections setting out specifically how victims from ethnic minority backgrounds may experience additional barriers to identifying, disclosing, seeking help or reporting abuse.
The government continues to offer migrant victims in the UK who have, or last had, permission to be in the UK under the family Immigration Rules to apply for access to the Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession (MVDAC).
The government will continue to work with the police and criminal justice agencies to ensure the law is used to maximum effect to protect victims of domestic abuse.