Recommendation 1
Consider introducing routine enquiry within general practice.
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗
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.
Original review (PDF) ↗
Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary AI-generated
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.
Home Office classifications
31 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
- Victim - pregnancy
- Victim - anxiety
- Victim - depression
- Victim - panic attacks
- Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
- Victim - immigration involvement
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
- Children - living with victim (including adult children)
- Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
- Child - primary address same as victim
- Child - immigration involvement
- Perpetrator - case heard in court
- Perpetrator - issued life sentence
- Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
- Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - immigration involvement
- Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
- DHR process - family contributed to dhr
- DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
- DHR process - family received draft report
- DHR process - health services recommendations
- DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
- DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
- DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
- DHR process - training recommendation themes
- DHR process - policy recommendation themes
- DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
- DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 2
Feedback learning from DHR 6 to GPs and Practice Managers.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗
Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗