Domestic Violence: Children

Department for Education written question – answered at on 5 April 2018.

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Photo of Vicky Foxcroft Vicky Foxcroft Opposition Whip (Commons)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) resources and (b) training his Department provides to teachers to ensure that they can (i) identify and (ii) support teenagers who are in abusive relationships.

Photo of Nick Gibb Nick Gibb Minister of State (Education)

The Government has provided £3 million for the ‘Disrespect Nobody’ teenage relationship abuse campaign, designed to raise awareness of different types of abusive behaviour, and key issues such as consent and healthy relationships. The Department has worked with the PSHE Association to develop teaching resources.

The Department’s statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges, ‘Keeping children safe in education’, advises that all staff members should receive appropriate child protection and safeguarding training which is regularly updated. As part of their child protection and safeguarding training, schools and colleges should consider the importance of their staff being aware of the different types of abuse and neglect so that they are able to identify cases of children who may be in need of help and protection. Departmental advice, ‘What to do if you are worried a child is being abused: Advice for practitioners’, provides more information on understanding and identifying different types of abuse and neglect.

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