Exclusive: shadow ministers write to home secretary warning not to repeat mistakes
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Ministers have been told they “must not repeat the mistakes of March, in being too slow to act” in tackling domestic abuse during the second national lockdown across England.
As the coronavirus pandemic took hold of the UK in early spring, and the country was locked down for the first time, domestic abuse charities saw the number of calls to their helplines increase by up to 50%.
