The House of Commons Library has published a briefing paper on domestic abuse in England and Wales. The report includes an overview of: the scope of the problem; the law concerning domestic abuse; progress made on the draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill following the consultation that closed 31 May 2018. Key recommendations from the consultation include: changes to the statutory definition of domestic abuse to replace 'financial abuse' with 'economic abuse', which includes access to basic resources like food and clothing.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has published a literature review of research into child sexual abuse (CSA) in residential and non-residential schools. The literature review covers research from five key areas: pupils attending residential schools; standards for keeping children safe from sexual abuse in schools in England and Wales; the scale and nature of CSA in schools; factors that influence CSA in schools; examples of unsuccessful safeguarding measures and positive approaches adopted by schools.

Rape Crisis Scotland and Miss M, the woman at the centre of a recent civil rape case, have launched a campaign to end the not proven verdict. Following a not proven verdict in a criminal trial in 2015, Miss M successfully sued Stephen Coxen in the civil courts, in what was the first civil damages action for rape following an unsuccessful criminal prosecution in almost 100 years. Uniquely, Scotland has three verdicts – guilty, not guilty and not proven.