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

Lambeth review

CSP: Lambeth Published: December 2022 Year of death: 2017 Extracted: 9 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

Agencies failed to adequately identify and respond to domestic violence, economic abuse, and abuse of process, leading to missed opportunities for risk assessment and support. Procedural disputes and limited inter-agency communication further compromised victim safety.

Extracted recommendations

9 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	The DWP to ensure that its agencies and public bodies have processes in place to enable them to participate in DHRs in a timely and appropriate manner.	DWP
2	The Home Office to amend the multi-agency statutory guidance for the conduct of DHRs by extending the duty ‘to have regard’ to government departments and the agencies and public bodies associated with them.	Home Office
3	The UK Government to include abuse of process in the statutory definition of domestic violence and abuse and the associated statutory guidance.	UK Government
4	MOPAC to work with local boroughs to develop a sustainable media-based public health awareness campaign to establish people's rights and promote community-building and primary prevention activities that tackle underlying assumptions in society.	MOPAC
5	The MPS quarterly recommendations meeting to review the learning from this report and take action to be assured that there is consistent practice across BOCU’s regarding the resolution of disputes over responsibility for an investigation so that these are resolved promptly, and the safety of victims is prioritised.	Metropolitan Police Service
6	The Gaia Centre (run by Refuge) to revise its operating procedures to ensure staff routinely enquire of a client whether they are working with other services.	The Gaia Centre (run by Refuge)
7	Victim Support to ensure the practice in its specialist domestic abuse teams (to routinely enquire of a client whether they are working with other services) is reflected in its procedures.	Victim Support
8	The DWP to direct the CMS to urgently review its public facing literature to ensure it addresses domestic violence and abuse in line with best practice around awareness raising, including specific reference to economic abuse (what it is and how it operates in post separation abuse).	DWP
9	The DWP to urgently commission an independent review into the CMS’s policy and procedure around domestic violence, informed by substantive consultation with victim/survivors and specialist domestic abuse services. This review to include in scope: the response to disclosures of domestic violence when making a child maintenance application; provision of independent specialist advice in that context; and the identification and management of risks by (alleged) perpetrators.	DWP
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗