National domestic abuse charity, SafeLives, announces extensive new research on the number of children growing up in abusive households, and the experiences of those children. SafeLives estimates that as children start primary school, there will be at least one child in every classroom who has lived with domestic abuse since they were born.
The government has marked IWD by announcing extra funding for domestic abuse
The Department for Education (DfE) has published a policy statement on relationships education in primary schools