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Children witnessing domestic abuse up 25 per cent, NSPCC says
THE number of phone calls to the NSPCC by child witnesses of the most serious cases of domestic abuse jumped by a quarter over the last year, the charity revealed today.
And despite the rising number of children “at high risk” from domestic abuse, help for them is “not in place,” it warned.
In 2018-19 the number of calls the charity referred to the police or local authorities rose to 6,642 — up from 5,322 the year before.
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