Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01756 · Session 5

Review current housing legislation to protect people experiencing domestic or elder abuse

Closed Submitted 11 Sep 2019 Housing & Planning
Signatures
0
25 online signatures with a country
Comments
3
Considered
4 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review current housing legislation in circumstances where a non-tenant has been responsible for domestic or elder abuse.

What the petitioner did first

I have discussed this issue with my local councillors, MSPs and Police Scotland.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 21 Nov 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 3 Sep 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 12 Nov 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  4. 13 Jan 2021
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

25 online signatures
  1. Scotland21 84%
  2. United Kingdom4 16%

Comments

3 comments, oldest first
  1. Audrey Watt 12 Sep 2019
    I agree with the wording of this legislation..
  2. James A Mackie 3 Oct 2019
    The recently introduced Domestic Abuse legislation is increasing the severity of this problem. Audit Scotland report an increase in numbers of individuals being detained and creating a shortage of custody places. People are being apprehended and detained with little or no evidence and then days later released on the orders of the Procurator Fiscal with no charges being proceeded on. In many cases children are taken into care. Once a parent has been apprehended and where no further proceedings are taken against them, social workers hold this as proof that there ahs been domestic abuse. One police officer told me that the outcome is totally irrelevant. It is the original complaint that must be the key decision marker.
  3. Morag Frame 3 Oct 2019
    Perpetrators of domestic abuse should forfeit their right to a shared tenancy and be evicted from the property, leaving the woman and children if any to enjoy the tenancy in their own right.