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  • Question on Consultation

    Is the draft scope clear in terms of its aims, boundaries, and the populations and settings it covers? From your perspective, will the guideline based on this scope be useful to your work or the services you provide?

  • Question on Consultation

    The draft scope focuses on health and mental health settings and joint work with social care but does not include interventions delivered solely by social care. Considering the remit of NICE and this guideline, from your perspective, does this approach raise any concerns that we should be aware of?

  • Question on Consultation

    Considering the remit of the NICE guideline update, does the draft EHIA consider the range of barriers faced by minoritised and underserved groups?

  • Question on Consultation

    Are there any additional equality or health inequalities issues we should consider?

Scope for guideline update (starting 2026)

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Activities, services or aspects of care covered by the guideline update

We will consider making recommendations or updating existing recommendations on:

  • preventing domestic abuse, where there are risk factors for abuse

  • identifying domestic abuse including support for disclosure by

    • young people and adults (aged 16 years and over) who are at risk of perpetrating or are perpetrating domestic abuse

    • young people and adults (aged 16 years and over) experiencing domestic abuse

    • children and young people (aged under 18 years) exposed to domestic abuse

  • interventions and approaches, including support and treatment for domestic abuse.

    Recommendations that are being retained from the current guideline may be revised to update language, reflect current policy or practice and legislation, and to ensure consistency with new content.

    This guideline update will not cover:

    • interventions involving the activities of the police, criminal justice, education, early years and youth services prevention

    • identification of domestic abuse and specialist domestic abuse services delivered by social care alone

    • interventions for people who have experienced female genital mutilation