Written questions

Domestic Abuse: Children

Commons · Question 55171 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 9 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Sarah Olney

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that (a) police and (b) independent schools can share data in relation to (i) Operation Encompass and (ii) the implementation of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2

Answer

Answered by Jess Phillips, 9 Jun 2025

The Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 introduced a duty on all 43 police forces to make Operation Encompass notifications to schools after attending a domestic abuse incident in a child’s home before the start of the next school day.The Home Office is curren...