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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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North Hampshire review

CSP: North Hampshire Published: December 2022 Year of death: 2014 Extracted: 5 recs

Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.

Original review (PDF) ↗ Source: Home Office DHR Library

Summary AI-generated

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The report identifies concerns regarding the sporadic use of routine domestic abuse enquiry in health settings, the invisibility and differing needs of older victims of domestic abuse (particularly from adult family members), and the compounding effect of social isolation on disclosure.

Home Office classifications

16 tags

Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.

  • Victim - serious or life limiting illness
  • Children - living with victim (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
  • Aggravating factors - separation
  • Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
  • DHR process - health services recommendations
  • DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
  • DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
  • 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 - awareness raising recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

5 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index

Recommendation 13.2

Addressed to West Hampshire Community CCG (as Safeguarding lead for NE Hants & Farnham CCG)

Address the information, training and multi-agency response health professionals could utilise, e.g. routine screening, to respond to potential victims of DVA.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation 13.3

Addressed to North East Hampshire Domestic Abuse Forum

Multi-agency response to elder abuse and the intersectionality of DVA and age in the context of domestic abuse, particularly from adult male sons.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation 13.4

Addressed to Adult Services | HSAB

Raise awareness to multi-agency partners of vulnerable adults in relation to DVA and in the context of social isolation.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation 13.5

Addressed to North East Hampshire Domestic Abuse Forum

Make accessible via training and awareness raising the understanding of Coercive Control, particularly in the context of the subsequent legislation.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation National

Addressed to Home Office

Governmental driver to raise the issue of elder abuse and Domestic Homicide. Utilising the most recent research available. Namely - Domestic Homicide of Older People (2010–15): A Comparative Analysis of Intimate-Partner Homicide and Parricide Cases in the UK – Hannah Bows (2018)31.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗