Written Question·Home Office·UIN 76434

Domestic Abuse: Older People

Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 15 September 2025

Question

Jess Asato

LabourLowestoft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department requires staff in multi-agency safeguarding hubs to receive safeguarding training on the risks of non-intimate partner coercive and controlling behaviour of older victims.

Answer

Jess Phillips
Coercive and controlling behaviour (CCB) is a particularly insidious form of domestic abuse and I recognise the long-term emotional and psychological distress it can cause victims, including older people.Statutory guidance on CCB has been issued to the po...

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