Leicester review

Safer Leicester Partnership should share the findings of this review with the Leicester Safeguarding Children’s Board to highlight all lessons learned through this review specific to children and young people.

The Home Office should note the findings of this review as relevant to their development of DVPN’s.

Practitioners are aware of their statutory requirement for assessment, and personal curiosity, where a child and young person meets the provision and care cannot be provided by persons with parental responsibility.

The Safer Leicester Partnership should develop links to District Judges who work with domestic abuse victims in the Family Court, through the Family Justice Board or Civil and Criminal Justice Working Group. In particular to ensure a shared understanding of coercive and controlling behaviour, and the agreement to use of undertakings, both of which impact on victim safety and decision making.

Both children and adults workers comply with multi-agency procedures to ascertain and record the ethnicity, religious practice and language of families they are involved with and that this is thoroughly considered in the context of assessment of need or risk; and in planning intervention and support.

The Safer Leicester Partnership should develop the inclusion of family lawyers who work with domestic abuse victims in the Family Court, within safeguarding training and information sharing.

Details of Attendance interventions to be logged and filed more efficiently for leavers.

The Safer Leicester Partnership should consider sharing the findings of this review with the Home Office in support of understanding the complexity of applying for protective orders for victims and for consideration of detailed housing analysis being captured in DHR’s nationally, for potential inclusion as a contributing factor in domestic abuse risk assessments.

The obtaining of an immediate independent, properly appointed, interpreter, should be reviewed by the local judiciary.

The Safer Leicester Partnership should share the findings of this review and develop information sharing protocols with the Family Court to enhance the safety of victims of domestic abuse, and their children.

The Safer Leicester Partnership should continue the awareness work commenced with faith leaders in Leicester City to further explore and inform shared understanding of the community approach in relation to ‘spiritual guidance’ in matters of domestic abuse.

The Safer Leicester Partnership should promote the existence of the revised domestic and sexual violence training programme, especially in relation to understanding and responding to issues of coercive and controlling behaviour, and encourage practitioners to undertake specific training in relation to faith, culture, religion and identity within domestic abuse.

The Safer Leicester Partnership should share the Public Health England publication ‘Domestic Abuse – a Toolkit for Employers’ with the regional Chamber of Commerce, for wide dissemination within the business community.

The Safer Leicester Partnership should ensure the learning points from this review are disseminated widely and incorporated within domestic abuse practice development.

Reminder to all GPs to detail causes of injuries in consultations.