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

Walsall review

CSP: Walsall Published: December 2022 Year of death: 2018 Extracted: 2 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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Summary

The review identifies a limited understanding among professionals of the co-morbidity of problem gambling, mental health issues, and substance misuse. It highlights a lack of professional curiosity in assessments and insufficient holistic consideration of these vulnerabilities, which hindered effective intervention and information sharing.

Extracted recommendations

2 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	The Safer Walsall Partnership would propose to the Walsall Adult and Child Safeguarding Boards that learning from this DHR relating to problem gambling be included by their Joint Learning and Development Sub Group in the Joint Annual Training Plan 2019-20 and that Safeguarding partners provide evidence to the Responsible Authority and Safer Walsall Partnership that it has been incorporated in their single agency learning/training and guidance.	Walsall Safeguarding Adult Board \| Walsall Joint Safeguarding Board
2	Learning from DHR7 around the ‘seven domains of harm’ associated with problem gambling, and the need to be professionally curious when encountering an individual exhibiting co-morbidity of problem gambling, substance misuse and mental health issues, is to be the subject of a multi-agency learning event in Walsall. Attendees to include all relevant safeguarding partners.	Walsall Council
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗