Submitted by Katherine Beesley Eaton on Sunday 26th October 2025
Published on Friday 5th December 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Friday 5th June 2026
Current Signatures: 344
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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abuse ~ Accredited ~ Bodies ~ Consistently ~ contact ~ Education ~ Ensure ~ Failed ~ health care ~ Healthcare ~ Justices ~ knowledge ~ Law ~ Mandate ~ Mandatory ~ Memorial ~ Professional ~ Safeguarding ~ Social care ~ Standards ~ training
Mandate trauma-informed training in justice, healthcare, education & social care
Introduce legislation to require professional bodies to include accredited trauma-informed training as a mandatory requirement for professionals in justice, healthcare, education & social care. Embed into standards, inspections & safeguarding frameworks to ensure consistent understanding of trauma.
Ensure laws like coercive control & policies such as removing the presumption of contact are applied consistently & correctly, professionals must understand how trauma shapes memory, behaviour & communication. We think that too often, “trauma-informed” practice is misapplied, excusing perpetrators while failing to recognise trauma in those harmed. Embedding mandatory training, including within degrees, would give professionals foundations to identify subtle nuances of abuse, because knowledge saves lives!
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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