Rejected petition Children DV Victims should remain in their Schools and in their Communities.

Government Legislation should empower the Police and local Housing to protect children especially when there is no physical violence but significant evidence of emotional harm to children from witnessing DV.

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The impact of DV on children is very devastating and affects every aspects of the children’s development from their cognition, social interaction, relationship, education, instability and it runs through their adult lives.

As a frontline child protection practitioner, most of the children with disruptive behaviour at school, those vulnerable to criminal exploitation, those with aggressive and violent behaviour, diverse forms of mental health, some with low grades etc have witnessed DV at some point in their early childhood. This is costly to the society as a whole.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We understand you're concerned about the impact of domestic violence on children, however it's not clear what specific actions you'd like the Government to take to "empower" the police and local authorities to protect children who witness domestic violence.

If there are specific powers the police or local authorities don't currently hold, which you'd like them to be given, you could have a petition about that.

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You might like to sign these petitions which call for related actions:

'Automatically remove parental responsibility following child or domestic abuse': https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/603728

'Introduce reforms to better support victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse': https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/598009

'Remove parental responsibility for domestic abusers who refuse rehabilitation': https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/599077

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Date submitted 25 January 2022
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