United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 51823
Domestic Abuse: Kinship Care
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13 May 2025
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20 May 2025 · Answer
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20 May 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take legislative steps to extend the definition of domestic abuse to include abuse of kinship carers by people in the wider family of the child that they care for.
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13 May 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take legislative steps to extend the definition of domestic abuse to include abuse of kinship carers by people in the wider family of the child that they care for.
Source: Commons
20 May 2025
Answer
The Home Office does not currently have plans to extend the definition of domestic abuse.The statutory definition of domestic abuse, contained within the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, captures a wide range of relationships and applies to kinship carers where t...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-05-13/51823
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1802438
- uk · wq-1802438 · source updated 20 May 2025