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: RochdalePublished: December 2022Year of death: 2018Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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.
Home Office classifications
33 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Victim - immigration involvement
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to social services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to mental health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to probation services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to school as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Perpetrator - immigration involvement
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - forced marriage
Aggravating factors - honour based violence
Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - school recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
5 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
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.
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
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.
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
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.
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
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.
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.