Consultation outcome

Domestic Abuse Bill consultation

• From: Home Office and Ministry of Justice
• Published: 8 March 2018
• Last updated: 21 January 2019 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

We have now published the consultation response alongside the draft Domestic Abuse Bill of this work.

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Original consultation

Summary

The consultation sets out the government’s approach to dealing with domestic abuse. It seeks to address it at every stage from prevention through to rehabilitation.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
7am on 8 March 2018 to 11:45pm on 31 May 2018

Consultation description

Since 2010, the government has made dealing with domestic abuse an absolute priority. We have worked closely with partners to introduce measures which deal with the fundamental drivers of domestic abuse, address the needs of survivors and victims, and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.

The consultation sets out the government’s approach to dealing with domestic abuse. It seeks to address it at every stage from prevention through to rehabilitation and reinforces the government’s aim to make domestic abuse everyone’s business. The consultation is wide-ranging and we are seeking views on both legislative proposals for a landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill and a package of practical action.

Our main aim through this work is to prevent domestic abuse by challenging the acceptability of abuse and addressing the underlying attitudes and norms that perpetuate it.

This consultation asks questions under four main themes with the central aim of prevention running through each:

• promote awareness – to put domestic abuse at the top of everyone’s agenda, and raise public and professionals’ awareness
• protect and support – to enhance the safety of victims and the support that they receive
• pursue and deter – to provide an effective response to perpetrators from initial agency response through to conviction and management of offenders, including rehabilitation
• improve performance – to drive consistency and better performance in the response to domestic abuse across all local areas, agencies and sectors

How to respond

This consultation is held on another website:

• Full version of the consultation
• Short version of the consultation

Information for British Sign Language users

This consultation was not presented in an accessible format for the deaf community. We have provided a British Sign Language (BSL) video translation of the full consultation document which will be available until 12 July 2018. For questions about this, email domesticabuseconsultation@justice.gsi.gov.uk

Who can respond?

By consulting we aim to harness the knowledge and expertise of victims and survivors, support organisations and research experts. We are also interested in the views of professionals across policing, criminal justice, health, welfare, education and local authorities who deal with these issues every day.

Published 8 March 2018
Last updated 21 January 2019 + show all updates

1. 21 January 2019

   Added a link to the government response to the consultation.

2. 28 June 2018

   We have now published a version for British Sign Language users.

3. 31 May 2018

   Added information for British Sign Language users.

4. 29 May 2018

   Changed the closing time to 11:45pm.

5. 8 March 2018

   First published.