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Hillingdon review

CSP: Hillingdon Published: December 2022 Extracted: 8 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 highlights challenges in enabling older people experiencing abuse to disclose their needs due to cultural and situational barriers. It notes missed opportunities for agency intervention, including a lack of MARAC referral despite police involvement.

Extracted recommendations

8 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	Review the current Domestic Abuse Strategy and identify the abuse of older people as an explicit category of abuse within the overarching structure.	London Borough of Hillingdon
2	Develop explicit measures in the strategy’s implementation plan to monitor the development of arrangements to identify cases of the abuse of older people.	London Borough of Hillingdon
3	Review links with voluntary and charitable organisations having contact with older people to ensure engagement with training and awareness programmes. Particular attention should be paid to religious/cultural/social community-based organisations.	London Borough of Hillingdon
4	To ensure that the DA Champions' work programme includes training in identifying the signs, symptoms and 'red flags' of the abuse of older people, referral pathways, risk assessment and information relating to the available advocacy / support agencies.	London Borough of Hillingdon
5	It is recommended that the DA Champions engage with relevant voluntary, religious, culturally and ethnically-based community groups to raise awareness of the abuse of older people and seek to broaden the range/network of such organisations that are cognisant of the availability of training and/or support.	London Borough of Hillingdon
6	Review and consider adopting a One Front Door approach to encompass all forms of safeguarding, including the abuse of older people.	London Borough of Hillingdon \| Safer Hillingdon Partnership
7	In conjunction with the CCG and in consultation with appropriate Safer Hillingdon Partnership and DA Partnership organisations, develop and pilot a short “prompt aide memoire” for the use of health professionals when dealing with older people and their carers.	Hillingdon CCG \| Safer Hillingdon Partnership
8	Review the routine training/awareness programme for all staff of relevant agencies and charities to: • Emphasise the importance of referrals to MASH/MARAC (via the “Single Front Door”) in cases where any professional believes there is an increasing trajectory of risk to a vulnerable person, even though the immediate situation does not meet the formal referral criteria. • Raise awareness of the cultural and situational barriers to disclosure, which may be experienced by older people.	London Borough of Hillingdon \| LSCB \| SAB
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗