Baroness Pitkeathley
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Domestic Abuse: Rural Communities
Baroness Pitkeathley Excerpts(7 years, 12 months ago)
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Lord Keen of Elie
The Government are already making headway in this area, and indeed have expanded the troubled families programme so that it now includes domestic violence and abuse as one of the six core themes.
Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab)
My Lords, in his Answer, the Minister mentioned violence. Assiduous followers of “The Archers”, as I confess I am, will know that it escalated into violence only at the very end of the storyline—actually, I do not think we have seen the end yet, by a long way. The issue is coercive control, which by its very nature is subtle and very difficult to identify. Could the Minister expand on his Answer in relation to that?
Lord Keen of Elie
Of course. I quite recognise the point that is being made, although I have to confess not to being a listener of “The Archers”.