Rejected petition Require mandatory safeguarding checks for repeat domestic abuse offenders
To reform safeguarding laws to prevent repeat domestic abuse. Known domestic abuse offenders, including those with charges, convictions, or active restraining or non-molestation orders, are allowed to live with women and children without mandatory safeguarding checks.
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Authorities often already know offenders’ violent histories, repeated offending and escalating risk, yet safeguarding does not automatically follow. Information is held across police and probation systems, but action is inconsistent, delayed or absent. This leaves women and children unprotected despite clear warning signs and known danger.
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You may wish to sign this petition, which calls for similar action: "New registry of people with 2+ protective orders & automatically notify partners" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/741618
You may also be interested in the following petitions.
"Hold public inquiry on safeguarding system and training in family courts" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751418
"Automatic ban of abusers' custody of children bereaved by domestic abuse suicide" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744371
"Require family court to refer findings of abuse & coercive control to the police" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754183
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