Petition · Home Office
Automatically remove parental responsibility from convicted domestic abusers
Open for signatures
54 signatures
What the petition asks
We believe that convicted domestic abusers should automatically have their parental responsibility removed. This is to safeguard the children from further abuse, preventing the abusive parent from leveraging their legal parental rights to inflict additional harm.
Domestic abuse, including when witnessed by children, cause significant harm. We do not believe that domestic abusers should retain their legal right to exercise their parental rights which can be used to cause further trauma despite all the abuse they put their family through, and call for parental rights of domestic abusers to be automatically removed.
Timeline
| 29 May 2026 | Petition opened for signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
54
Status
Open for signatures
Department
Home Office
Opened
29 May 2026
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 26 Jul 2026.