questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take legislative steps to extend the definition of domestic abuse to include abuse of kinship carers by people in the wider family of the child that they care for.
answerText: The Home Office does not currently have plans to extend the definition of domestic abuse.The statutory definition of domestic abuse, contained within the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, captures a wide range of relationships and applies to kinship carers where t...
heading: Domestic Abuse: Carers