Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 68076

Domestic Abuse: Training

Tabled: 15 July 2025
Answered: 22 July 2025

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of mandating standardised domestic abuse training for all frontline NHS staff.

Answer

Karin Smyth
It is the responsibility of National Health Service organisations to ensure that all staff undertake mandatory training on domestic abuse. Mandatory training at Level 1 is captured in the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR), as part of the integrated safegu...

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