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
Cardiff review
CSP: CardiffPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2016Extracted: 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 highlights concerns regarding inadequate multi-agency information sharing, particularly concerning domestic abuse and the perpetrator's mental health and substance misuse. It also notes challenges in assessing the perpetrator's complex needs and obtaining crucial health information for the review.
Home Office classifications
26 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - housing issues
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Children - removed into care
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - psychosis
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to idva or other domestic abuse support service as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - attended drug and alcohol services
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - housing services 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 - record keeping recommendation themes
That the outcomes of both the Child Practice Review and the Domestic Homicide Review are shared and considered by the Cardiff Public Services Board and any consistent themes are acted upon in a coordinated way.
The Home Office Quality Assurance Panel provides additional information and clarity with regards to the Home Office Guidance for the conduct of Domestic Homicide Reviews dated December 2016. Particular clarification is required of paragraphs 99 and 100 that relates specifically to Health Service support to such reviews. This is critical to those perpetrators who have been subject to judicial proceedings and are serving substantial custodial sentences.
Cardiff Housing reviews policy, practice, and relevant training to ensure all staff are aware of their responsibilities in tackling Domestic Abuse especially in taking a partnership approach to problem solve.
The Cardiff Public Services Board reviews both its strategic and tactical management and support to victims of mental health especially those victims currently being supported for substance and alcohol addiction.