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
Cwm Taf review
CSP: Cwm TafPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2017Extracted: 3 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 a lack of agency involvement prior to the death and significant barriers to reporting domestic abuse, particularly for male victims. There was a societal struggle to recognise women as perpetrators and men as victims, alongside community normalisation of the perpetrator's coercive control and the impact of alcohol.
Home Office classifications
22 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - school recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Addressed to
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council Education Department
There should be a consistent approach to Healthy Relationship work to be undertaken across all schools, to include the impact of domestic abuse, in order to educate future generations and reduce the likelihood of harm, including: ▪ What is a Healthy relationship? ▪ The inter-relationship between mental health issues, substance misuse on the incidence of domestic abuse ▪ Support for Emotional Wellbeing. ▪ This approach may encourage children to disclose domestic abuse to a trusted adult in school
Addressed to
Cwm Taf Community Safety Partnership | Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board
There should be a national and local communication strategy developed to raise awareness that men can be victims of domestic abuse and the support available to them.