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

Kent review

CSP: Kent Published: December 2022 Year of death: 2017 Extracted: 4 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 missed opportunities for carer's assessments under the Care Act 2014, a lack of comprehensive patient information available to out-of-hours medical services, and a failure by police to display professional curiosity and avoid cognitive bias in the initial assessment of the victim's death.

Extracted recommendations

4 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	Ensure staff awareness of the impact of being a carer and when the need for a carer’s assessment is required. (Kent & Medway Safeguarding Adults Board (KMSAB), GPs and Local Hospice.)	Kent Community Safety Partnership \| NHS Clinical Commissioning Group
2	To ensure staff awareness of the Care Act 2014 and the need for carer’s assessments to be provided where appropriate.	Private Healthcare Provider
3	To ensure that awareness training around cognitive bias is provided to all Police Officers who attend sudden or suspicious deaths, highlighting the findings of the report “a study into decision making at the initial scene of unexpected death”.	Kent Police
4	To examine how specialist patient information can be made available to Out of Hours Services.	NHS Clinical Commissioning Group
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗