An exclusive investigation by openDemocracy has found that 377,000 children in England and Wales have been identified by local authorities as being at risk of domestic abuse in the past five years. Perhaps even more shockingly, 396 of these children have died in the same period. The investigation shows that children are still trapped in homes where they are in danger, often with the knowledge of the authorities, four years after the landmark Domestic Abuse Act 2021 recognised that children in households where domestic abuse is present are victims in their own right. The violence they experience can have a lifelong impact on their mental and physical health.