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.

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Tower Hamlets review

CSP: Tower Hamlets Published: December 2022 Year of death: 2018 Extracted: 3 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

The review identified systemic missed opportunities by multiple agencies to identify and respond to escalating domestic abuse, coercive control, and stalking. These included failures in information sharing, consistent referral to specialist support, and a lack of mandatory domestic abuse training for front-line staff.

Extracted recommendations

3 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	Review domestic abuse awareness and training for front-line staff (including the wider definition of coercion and control, also its impact on safeguarding children) and devise a programme to ensure it is a mandatory requirement for current and new front-line staff	LB Tower Hamlets \| Community Safety Partnership
2	Review training programmes to ensure the concept of family group conferences is promoted across agencies	LB Tower Hamlets Children Social Care
3	Registered Providers of Social Housing should consider the ‘Whole Housing Toolkit’ and Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) accreditation to improve their responses to victims of domestic abuse, in particular to highlight possible indicators of financial/domestic abuse and improve awareness of the support available	LB Tower Hamlets \| Registered Providers of Social Housing
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗