The Home Office consultation Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls launched earlier this month. It aims to discover what more can be done to stop the scourge of domestic violence, which affects both adults and children.
According to the Department of Health, at least 750,000 children a year witness domestic violence. In some cases, the children themselves will suffer physical or sexual abuse from the same perpetrator.
Under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, which came into force in December 2005, all children that witness such violence are also being harmed.
Since her appointment as criminal justice minister in 2003, the attorney general Baroness Scotland has tried to tackle the problem of domestic violence head on.
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