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

Milton Keynes review

CSP: Milton Keynes Published: December 2022 Year of death: 2018 Extracted: 18 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

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The report identifies a lack of awareness of domestic abuse services, missed opportunities by professionals for early identification and intervention, and insufficient information sharing and risk assessment practices, particularly concerning perpetrators with a history of violence.

Home Office classifications

25 tags

Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.

  • Victim - housing issues
  • Victim - mental ill health
  • Victim - depression
  • Perpetrator - case heard in court
  • Perpetrator - issued life sentence
  • Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
  • Perpetrator - substance misuse
  • Perpetrator - housing issues
  • Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - attended drug and alcohol services
  • Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
  • DHR process - family contributed to dhr
  • DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
  • DHR process - family received draft report
  • DHR process - police recommendations
  • DHR process - health services recommendations
  • DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
  • DHR process - probation services recommendations
  • DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
  • 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 - awareness raising recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

18 recommendations pulled from the report · 4 matched to organisations in the index

Recommendation 1

Addressed to Milton Keynes Community Safety Partnership

All panel members to review their own responses to the three themes i.e. Raising Awareness, Training and Domestic Abuse referral pathways

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Recommendation 2

Addressed to Milton Keynes Urgent Care Service

Milton Keynes Urgent Care Service to review current safeguarding policy and strategy documents with a review to introducing a dedicated 'chapter' on Domestic Abuse.

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Recommendation 3

Addressed to Milton Keynes Community Safety Partnership

The Domestic Abuse Strategic Delivery Group to review current activities by the service provider (MK ACT) and ensure support in uplifting their current profile-raising strategy across all partnership agencies.

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Recommendation 4

Addressed to University Hospital Foundation Trust

The UHFT should review current MK ACT activities and ensure that they are shared across all hospital sites, internet webpages and other avenues used to advertise UHFT services

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Recommendation 5

Addressed to Milton Keynes Community Safety Partnership

Develop a culture of 'Professional Curiosity' within frontline practitioners and line managers, through on-going training and internal publicity

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Recommendation 6

Addressed to Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group

Encourage those who work within GP practices to ask Domestic Abuse screening/safety questions

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Recommendation 8

Addressed to Milton Keynes Community Safety Partnership

All those being recruited in the role of Domestic Abuse Champion should be subject to DBS checks, prior to selection into the position

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Recommendation 9

Addressed to Safer MK CSP

Safer MK CSP should produce and initial training packages and provide a system of CPD for Domestic Abuse Champions

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Recommendation 10

Addressed to Milton Keynes Community Safety Partnership

Training for Local Parish Councillors relating to safeguarding and personal protection

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Recommendation 11

Addressed to Milton Keynes Community Safety Partnership

Local Parish Councillors and those involved in visiting vulnerable families must have successfully completed the Disclosure and Barring Service process

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Recommendation 12

Addressed to Milton Keynes Community Safety Partnership

Develop and deliver training, for all staff regarding professional curiosity and coercive control.

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Recommendation 14

Addressed to Milton Keynes Community Safety Partnership

All agencies represented on the panel should ensure that there are suitable Information Sharing Agreements within all domestic abuse policies and strategies.

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Recommendation 15

Addressed to Thames Valley Police

All reports to Thames Valley Police, relating to domestic abuse, should be subject to thorough research, including PNC, PND and local databases

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Recommendation 16

Addressed to Thames Valley Police | Probation Service

The pathway of sharing intelligence and information between Thames Valley Police and the Probation Service staff needs to have concise lines of provenance and governance

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Recommendation 17

Addressed to Probation Service

The Probation/Community Rehabilitation Company to introduce a series of routine enquiries or questions in circumstances where supervision meetings are attended by both the perpetrator and their partner.

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Recommendation 18

Addressed to Milton Keynes Council, Housing and Regeneration

Procedures to share information legally and appropriately between housing officers and neighbourhood officers should be reviewed to ensure that risk to tenants can be assessed and protective measures taken where appropriate

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