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    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?

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    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?

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

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    Are there any additional equality or health inequalities issues we should consider?
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Scope for guideline update (starting 2026)

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Who the guideline update covers

The update will cover the following groups using the definitions in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021:

  • 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 with direct experience of domestic abuse, as victims, when the person perpetrating the abuse is aged 16 years or over. 

  • Babies, children and young people aged under 18 years who see, hear or experience the effect of domestic abuse and are related to or under the 'parental responsibility' of the victim or person perpetrating the abuse. This is in line with the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.

Equality considerations

A new equality and health inequalities impact assessment has been completed.

Settings

The guideline will cover all NHS health and mental health settings. It will also cover social care settings where health or mental health services work together with social care.