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
Tower Hamlets review
CSP: Tower Hamlets
Published: December 2022
Year of death: 2019
Extracted: 15 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 concerns regarding the identification of vulnerability and provision of support for the perpetrator's mental health and substance use, alongside the victim's 'invisible' carer role. It also highlights the need to enhance responses to Adult Family Violence, improve employer engagement in DHRs, and review advocacy for international families.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Home Office to review funding arrangements for the provision of specialist and expert advocacy for the families of victims who reside outside of the UK. | Home Office |
| 2 | The Tower Hamlets CSP to write to the professional services company to share the findings of the DHR. In writing this letter, the Tower Hamlets CSP should express their disappointment at the professional services company’s failure to participate in the DHR and request they review their procedures to ensure they can participate in DHRs in the future. | Tower Hamlets Community Safety Partnership |
| 3 | The Home Office to engage with the Corporate Alliance Against Domestic Violence and the Employers’ Initiative on Domestic Abuse to review the effectiveness of existing guidance and support for employers in order to promote involvement in DHRs. | Home Office |
| 4 | The Tower Hamlets CSP to work with local partners to review the findings from this DHR and develop the response to AFV locally. This should include considering evidence of need locally and identifying the actions that agencies can take individually and collectively and completing a training needs assessment to identify the skills and training that professionals require to respond. | Tower Hamlets Community Safety Partnership |
| 7.1.10 | Information about the availability of structured & clinical supervision to support colleagues who experience traumatic events at work, to be publicised as part of the Employee Assistance Programme. | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| 7.1.11 | All recommendations to be added to the Multi-Agency Recommendations Action Plan. | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| 7.1.12 | That METRO Charity staff and volunteers are provided with training on the intersection of culture, faith, sexual orientation, gender and family, particularly those who are in mentoring and counselling roles. | METRO Charity |
| 7.1.2 | The MO12 SLT task the CPIC to review the policies and procedures whereby callers to MO12 MPS Contact Centre are recorded as having perceived vulnerabilities but no ACN or MERLIN record is completed. This is in order to ensure that sufficient safeguarding measures are taken in these circumstances. | Metropolitan Police Service |
| 7.1.3 | The North East SLT reinforce the requirement for all staff: • To understand the Vulnerability and protection of adults at risk policy; • To understand the VAF; and • To complete ACN Merlin reports where they have identified vulnerability whether they are a victim, witness, suspect or member of the public they have encountered using VAF. | Metropolitan Police Service |
| 7.1.4 | The Central East BCU SLT reinforce the requirement for all staff: • To understand the Vulnerability and protection of adults at risk policy; • To understand the VAF; and • To complete ACN Merlin reports where they have identified vulnerability whether they are a victim, witness, suspect or member of the public they have encountered using VAF. | Metropolitan Police Service |
| 7.1.5 | The processes for Intermediate Market Rent Tenancy sign-ups to be reviewed. The Review to ensure that our internal and external checks include identification of multiple tenancies and subletting. This action to be added to MTVH’s Operational Risk Register. | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| 7.1.6 | The Sustainability and Vulnerabilities Questionnaire will be included as part of the standard operating procedure for all new tenancies. | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| 7.1.7 | A Learning from Experience case study to be prepared and shared through reflective practice sessions. This will include a refresher in tenancy management for sublets; reporting compliance for violent & unexplained deaths; Safeguarding emphasis on professional curiosity with focus on debt, financial hardship and related vulnerabilities. | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| 7.1.8 | Operational team meetings to have an item on required reporting compliance for violent & unexplained deaths. | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| 7.1.9 | Briefing on violence between siblings and inter-generational conflicts in the context of domestic abuse, to be added as good practice in our DA training content. | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||