Written Question·Home Office·UIN 48461

Domestic Abuse: Children

Tabled: 28 April 2025
Answered: 7 May 2025

Question

Suella Braverman

Reform UKFareham and Waterlooville

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people on the Children and Adults barred list for exposing children to abuse whose domestic abuse perpetrator is not on the register.

Answer

Jess Phillips
The purpose of the children’s and adults’ barred lists maintained by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is to prevent individuals from applying to work or from working in regulated activity with children and/or vulnerable adults, if they are conside...

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