SOCIETY will face “devastating consequences for a generation” unless urgent action is taken to tackle rising domestic violence under lockdown, MPs have warned. 

In a report published today calling for a full action plan from the government, the Commons home affairs select committee said that domestic abuse has soared since the coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed last month. 

Over the first three weeks of the lockdown between March 23 and April 12, there were at least 16 killings of women and children in domestic situations, according to campaigning organisation Counting Dead Women.