New powers to stop people who have killed their partners from gaining parental rights to surviving children will be introduced before the end of the year, the UK justice secretary will say.
Alex Chalk will introduce “Jade’s law” this year to protect families from the manipulation of jailed abusers.
The measures, named after Jade Ward, who was stabbed and strangled by her partner, Russell Marsh, in 2021 as their four sons were sleeping, will introduce an automatic suspension of parental responsibility while any mother or father is serving time for killing the person with whom they shared that responsibility.