More than 106,000 supporters signed a petition for Valerie's Law, triggering a Commons debate.
MPs will debate a call for specialist support for black domestic abuse victims.The campaign is named after
Ms Oppong-Asare will set out how issues including racism and "adultification", where young black women are perceived as older than they are and not treated as victims such as inCampaigning for better support for the black victims of domestic violence "Victims and survivors may only have the energy to seek help once. This is why every agency - including councils, police forces, the NHS, and third sector organisations - must have the training and skills to adequately support black women from the start."Adultification" and racism was behind the abuse of Child Q, Ngozi Fulani and Djanomi Headley of domestic abuse charity Sistah Space have said.
She said: "Without mandating this cultural competency training, black women are left to gamble with their lives on whether those responding to the scene have received enough cultural training to understand the unique signs of abuse in black environments, or on black skin or other relevant considerations.
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