PLANS to restrict the movements of domestic abuse perpetrators are “long time coming,” according to a survivor.

Mother-of-two Leanne, 54, said that she was “ecstatic” about the move but hoped it was more than “just pillow talk” after feeling let down by previous governments.

Ministers will seek to introduce “restriction zones” to limit where abusers can go, aiming to allow survivors to go about their daily lives without fear of seeing their offender.

Until now exclusion zones exist only to stop perpetrators from going to where their victims live.

Sexual and violent offenders could now be restricted to certain locations and tracked with technology, and would face jail time for breaching the conditions under new proposals.

Tens of thousands of offenders would be tagged, prompting concerns from the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales over the Probation Service’s ability to cope with rising numbers.

The government also announced £700 million of funding until 2028/29 for the service to back up its reforms, as well as recruiting 1,300 new probation officers by March 2026.

For the new restriction zones, probation officers will work with survivors to decide on banned locations for perpetrators, and will carry out detailed risk assessments.

Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones announced the new measure at charity Advance in London yesterday.

Speaking at one of Advance’s women’s centres, director Amy Glover said that the domestic abuse charity wants to see what the monitoring processes are and how quickly a probation officer would intervene if a perpetrator was breaching conditions or doing something unsafe.

She warned new safety measures for survivors have not always worked and “can actually create a false sense of security.”