About this page. This page summarises a Domestic Homicide Review published in the Home Office DHR Library. The full report is available at the source link below. Victim and perpetrator names are not included in extracted summaries on this page.
Source · Domestic Homicide Review
Rochdale review
CSP: Rochdale
Published: December 2022
Year of death: 2018
Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The review identified systemic failures in multi-agency communication, risk assessment, and information sharing, particularly concerning domestic abuse, forced marriage, and honour-based violence. Agencies missed opportunities for early intervention and safeguarding, leading to inadequate protection for the victim and her family.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 4.2.1 | All agencies should review their arrangements for risk assessment processes linked to domestic abuse cases. There is ample evidence during this review that some agencies’ processes were not effective at identifying risk; in others there were simply no risk assessment procedures in place. | Rochdale Community Safety Partnership |
| 4.2.2 | The Community Safety Partnership should commission multi-agency training linked to issues of forced marriage and honour based violence. These are complex cases that require early identification, intervention and referral. Training should include Forced Marriage Protection Orders, the criminal offence of ‘forced marriage’, an appreciation of the significant harm that can take place and of divided family loyalties. | Rochdale Community Safety Partnership |
| 4.2.3 | The Community Safety Partnership should coordinate awareness raising of forced marriage within the local community. This is a sensitive topic and communities have different interpretations of what constitutes an arranged marriage and when this becomes a forced marriage. The new definition on forced marriage is clear on issues of coercion, emotional abuse and financial control. This recommendation could include prevention work within a variety of arenas. | Rochdale Community Safety Partnership |
| 4.2.4 | The Community Safety Partnership should ensure there are referral pathways to the Immigration Service when professionals encounter issues of forced marriage and allegations that one party may be subject to immigration restrictions linked to the marriage. | Rochdale Community Safety Partnership |
| 4.2.5 | Adult Social Care should provide reassurance that (post Care Act 2014) their procedures and protocols reflect a referral, information sharing, assessment and intervention process that is clear to all agencies who may need to link in with their service for an adult at risk of harm. | Adult Social Care |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||