‘It will be affecting someone we know’: domestic abuse devastates 4.7 million

Nearly 4.7 million adults in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse in the year to March 2026.  If that figure, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), wasn’t bad enough, it’s up from 7.8% the previous year. The rise was driven by an increase in abuse by intimate partners.  The research, part of the … Continue reading ‘It will be affecting someone we know’: domestic abuse devastates 4.7 million