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
Leicester review
CSP: LeicesterPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2018Extracted: 4 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identifies systemic failures in early intervention, multi-agency information sharing, and risk assessment regarding domestic abuse, trauma, and criminal exploitation. Concerns include inadequate mental health support, cultural competence issues, and challenges in transitional safeguarding for young people.
Home Office classifications
30 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - immigration involvement
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
The Safer Leicester Partnership assures itself that agencies understand the importance of identification of domestic abuse in families and understand the harm this represents to children and families.
The Safer Leicester Partnership to share the learning from this review with the National Prosecution Team and local Prosecution Team Performance Management group.
Addressed to
Safer Leicester Partnership | Leicester Children Safeguarding Partnership Board
The Safer Leicester Partnership and Leicester Children Safeguarding Partnership Board should reflect on how current quality assurance frameworks measure effective cultural competence.
When current service provision for adolescents who are subject to transition from child services to adult services is reviewed, the review process considers the wealth of learning from research and national good practice.