Question follow-through · 51823
Domestic Abuse: Kinship Care
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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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
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.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
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20 May 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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