Barry Sheerman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2014-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the number of UK households which experience high risk domestic abuse; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such abuse on children.

Mr Edward Timpson

Information about the number of children at risk because of domestic abuse has been collected by local authorities as part of the Department for Education’s Children in Need census since April 2013. The first figures will be available from autumn 2014.