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Committee Material Published 19 Jul 2023 ↗ View on Parliament

The Government must include specific questions on honour-based abuse in the Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment tool to help both victims and police officers identify risks confidently and accurately.

The Government must include specific questions on honour-based abuse in the Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment tool to help both victims and police officers identify risks confidently and accurately. Type: recommendation | Number: 6 | Paragraph: 39 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The Government recognises the importance of ensuring that professionals recognise and understand HBA. There is a clear non-statutory definition which both the Home Office and the CPS already use: “an incident or crime involving violence, threats of violence, intimidation, coercion or abuse (includin