Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 76438

Domestic Abuse: Older People

Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 18 September 2025

Question

Jess Asato

LabourLowestoft

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has provided guidance for health and care staff on non-intimate partner coercive and controlling behaviour of older victims.

Answer

Karin Smyth
All National Health Service staff are required to complete mandatory safeguarding training which includes a focus on violence and abuse. The training reflects the definitions in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and accompanying statutory guidance which include...

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