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: WalsallPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2018Extracted: 2 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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.
Home Office classifications
20 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - was a carer
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - self harm
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - social services 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
Extracted recommendations
2 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
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.
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.