Petitions/Automatically remove parental responsibility from convicted domestic abusers
StatusOngoing
Opened29 May 2026
Closes
Government response
Parliamentary debateNot eligible
Milestones

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.

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Constituency engagement ranking

Mary Kelly Foy
1Mary Kelly Foy MP
City of Durham
8
Naz Shah
2Naz Shah MP
Bradford West
2
Helen Maguire
3Helen Maguire MP
Epsom and Ewell
2
Mark Ferguson
4Mark Ferguson MP
Gateshead Central and Whickham
2
Rachel Taylor
5Rachel Taylor MP
North Warwickshire and Bedworth
2
Lauren Edwards
6Lauren Edwards MP
Rochester and Strood
2
John Cooper
7John Cooper MP
Dumfries and Galloway
2
Lee Anderson
8Lee Anderson MP
Ashfield
1
Liam Conlon
9Liam Conlon MP
Beckenham and Penge
1
Liam Byrne
10Liam Byrne MP
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North
1