By Catarina Demony and Sam Tabahriti

LONDON (Reuters) -A British government minister said on Monday that a domestic abuse risk assessment tool used for over 15 years by police forces, social services and health workers to evaluate the danger victims face “doesn’t work”.

When asked by the BBC whether there would be a different version of DASH (Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour-Based Violence Assessment), safeguarding minister Jess Phillips said there were “obvious problems with the DASH risk assessment”.

“My instinct is that the tool doesn’t work, but until I can replace it with something that does, we have to make the very best of the system that we have.”

Reuters reported this month that many people were failed by DASH, and spoke with mothers whose daughters were classified as mediu

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