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
Bolton review
CSP: Bolton
Published: December 2022
Year of death: 2019
Extracted: 6 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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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The report identifies missed opportunities by professionals to recognise and assess domestic abuse, particularly in older people, leading to an inappropriate decision not to conduct a safeguarding enquiry. Failures in mental capacity assessment, discharge planning, and information sharing also contributed to the victim's risk.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership and Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board will seek assurances from the relevant partner agencies that they have reviewed current policy and practice to ensure that it recognises older people can be victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse and there are appropriate pathways in place for handling disclosures of domestic abuse from older people. | Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership | Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board |
| 2 | Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership and Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board to review multi-agency training for Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Adults to ensure that it addresses the learning from this review, particularly relating to domestic abuse in older people, including; how to receive disclosures about domestic abuse, how to complete DASH risk assessments and the levels of detail professionals should seek, identifying when an enquiry under section 42 of the Care Act 2014 might be triggered and understanding the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal. | Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership | Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board |
| 3 | Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board will seek assurances from Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and Bolton Council that a review of hospital discharges procedures will be undertaken to ensure where appropriate, voices of the next of kin and carers are included in discharge planning giving consideration to complexity and/or safeguarding issues. | Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board |
| 4 | Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership and Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board reviews the information it produces and distributes to the community about domestic abuse and ensures it informs families about the need to report concerns about domestic abuse and the pathways a family can take when they hold such information. | Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership | Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board |
| 5 | Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership to provide periodic briefings to Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board as to the progress and delivery of recommendations arising from this review. | Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership |
| 6 | Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board to be given assurances by partner agencies that they have reviewed their processes regarding information sharing when they have contact with individuals, family members, significant others. This should include reviewing how and when advice or conversations concerning care and support plans is given, to who and when. | Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||