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
Salford review
CSP: SalfordPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2017Extracted: 2 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
Agencies missed opportunities to identify and respond to domestic abuse disclosures, conduct risk assessments, and consider the increased risks during separation. There were also issues with inconsistent record-keeping and information sharing, particularly in primary care, and a lack of exploration into coercive control.
Home Office classifications
38 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - physical disability
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - suicidal thoughts
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Perpetrator - died by suicide
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
Salford CSP should seek assurance from its member organisations that they have procedures and governance in place to ensure that all contacts with service users are recorded and acted upon as necessary (i.e. if the service user is considered to be at risk). This should include assurance that professionals ask questions regarding other persons who are present at contacts and that responses are recorded and actioned as necessary.
Manchester and Salford CSPs should task their respective domestic abuse working groups with reviewing, and where appropriate, revising guidance, literature and approaches to supporting families and friends of domestic abuse victims and perpetrators, in line with the findings of this review.