Mandate domestic violence training for all family court & social workers
Make accredited domestic abuse, coercive control and trauma-informed training mandatory for social workers and family court professionals, with regular updates, so every worker has high-quality training to safeguard survivors and children.
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 9/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 9/100,000
- 11 AUG 2026Petition opened for signaturesCreated by L Steward
Background
Some survivors and children are still being failed, misunderstood and victim-blamed by professionals without specialist knowledge. Every social worker must receive high-quality, regularly updated training to improve safeguarding, challenge harmful assumptions and prevent unsafe decisions.