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Counselling: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that counselling for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence includes culturally competent and specialist support for diverse communities.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Feb 2025
Target answer date
25 Feb 2025
Answer
11 Mar 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that counselling for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence includes culturally competent and specialist support for diverse communities.

  2. 25 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    NHS England cannot comment specifically on services which are commissioned by local providers, however work is continuing to address mental health inequalities and attract more professionals from other backgrounds.The Ministry of Justice and the Associati...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing statutory guidance to NHS commissioning bodies to ensure that they commission counselling and psychotherapy professionals to provide

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Family Hubs: Finance

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of funding his Department is providing to the (a) Best Start in Life strategy and (b) Best Start Family Hubs.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Recruitment

1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions’ Oral Statement of 30 June 2025 on Welfare Reform, if he will provide a breakdown by (a) location and (b) roles of the additional 6,70

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Domestic Abuse

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department requires mandatory training in coercive and controlling behaviour for health and social care staff in multi-agency safeguarding hubs.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Domestic Abuse: Older People

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department requires health and social care staff in multi-agency safeguarding hubs to receive safeguarding training on the risks of non-intimate partner coercive and controlling behavio

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Domestic Abuse: Older People

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has provided guidance for health and care staff on non-intimate partner coercive and controlling behaviour of older victims.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department of Health and Social Care: Domestic Abuse

12 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has (a) implemented a domestic abuse policy for staff and (b) trained line managers to effectively respond to staff who are experiencing domestic abuse.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Artificial Intelligence

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