Question follow-through · 53014
Police: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish guidance on the circumstances in which police forces should consider the possibility of domestic abuse when responding to incidents that involve (a) kinship carers and (b) the wide
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish guidance on the circumstances in which police forces should consider the possibility of domestic abuse when responding to incidents that involve (a) kinship carers and (b) the wide
21 May 2025
Target answer date
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28 May 2025
Answer published
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 they are related to a perpetrator.The Government will consider kinship carers when updatin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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