In the last 12 months, Childline’s helpline received 1,400 calls about children experiencing such behaviour as part of domestic abuse.
The service delivered more than 1,000 counselling sessions to children and young people experiencing domestic abuse, with 221 mentioning coercive and controlling behaviour, the figures reveal.
A 17-year-old girl who contacted Childline said: "My dad used to be physically abusive, but this has stopped. Now he calls us names, gaslights us, controls the finances and locks up parts of the house, like the kitchen, so that we aren’t allowed in. The police have been called but they ask us questions in front of my dad so no-one can say the real truth.
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