Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 76437
Domestic Abuse: Older People
Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 18 September 2025
Question
Jess Asato
Labour — Lowestoft
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
Answer
Karin SmythAll National Health Service staff are required to complete mandatory safeguarding training which includes a focus on domestic abuse. Coercive and controlling behaviour is included within the 2021 Domestic Abuse Act’s definition of Domestic Abuse. Staff wi...
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