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

Wigan review

CSP: Wigan Published: December 2022 Year of death: 2016 Extracted: 7 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 highlights a lack of agency knowledge regarding the perpetrator's hidden controlling behaviour and the victim's vulnerability. It identifies missed opportunities for domestic abuse enquiry in healthcare settings and a need to recognise increased risk at relationship breakdown.

Extracted recommendations

7 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	Consider introducing routine enquiry within general practice.	Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group
1	That Wigan Council’s Building Stronger Communities Partnership promotes across the work force and as part of its co-ordinated community response model, the need to recognise the escalation of risk at point of separation or relationship breakdown.	Wigan Building Stronger Communities Partnership
2	Feedback learning from DHR 6 to GPs and Practice Managers.	Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group
2	That Wigan Council’s Building Stronger Communities Partnership works with children’s services to recognise the heightened risk at times of separation or relationship breakdown and NOT as a protective factor when not supported by other factors.	Wigan Building Stronger Communities Partnership
3	That Wigan Council’s Building Stronger Communities Partnership promotes the use of its approved screening tool in relation to coercion and control as either a single part of wider domestic abuse or as a form of domestic abuse in its own right as upheld in legislation.	Wigan Building Stronger Communities Partnership
4	That Wigan Council’s Building Stronger Communities Partnership publishes this report and shares the learning with colleagues within the Borough and also across Greater Manchester.	Wigan Building Stronger Communities Partnership
5	That Wigan Council’s Building Stronger Communities Partnership establishes the whether there is a need for voluntary perpetrator programmes and if to determine how they can be commissioned.	Wigan Building Stronger Communities Partnership
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗