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
Bristol review
CSP: BristolPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2016Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The report identifies concerns regarding multi-agency responses to non-intimate partner domestic abuse, particularly sibling violence, and the effectiveness of safeguarding for older children. It highlights challenges in assessing cumulative risks in families with multiple needs and engaging non-cooperative families.
Home Office classifications
24 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to social services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
5 recommendations pulled from the report · 3 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Avon and Somerset Constabulary | Community Safety Partnership | Bristol Safeguarding Children Board
Avon and Somerset Constabulary should work with its partners within the Community Safety Partnership and Bristol Safeguarding Children Board to review the effectiveness of its Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment model and investigative practice regarding non-intimate partner abuse.
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | Safeguarding Children Board | Bristol Safeguarding Adults Board
The Community Safety Partnership and the Safeguarding Children Board should work with partners, including the Bristol Safeguarding Adults Board, to develop practice, knowledge and skills across agencies relating to non-intimate partner abuse and to consider whether there is a role for specialist services.
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | Bristol Safeguarding Children Board | Home Office
The Community Safety Partnership and the Bristol Safeguarding Children Board should recommend to the Home Office that guidance, research and strategy relating to a broader spectrum of domestic abuse other than intimate partner abuse is developed nationally.
Addressed to
Children’s Social Care | Youth Offending Team
Children’s Social Care and the Youth Offending Team to draw on the learning from this Review to identify ways to further develop their approach to, and arrangements for, joint working.