Fenland review

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should ensure that they compile a list of all agencies that are operating or can provide domestic abuse services within their area. They should make this list available to their partnership, so agencies are aware of what services are available to support victims of domestic abuse and that victims are appropriately referred to them.

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Domestic Abuse Partnership should consider what the offer is to those who subject others to domestic abuse or coercive behaviour and want support to address their behaviour.

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should seek assurance from Cambridgeshire Children Services and Cambridgeshire Constabulary that: - • Appropriate cases are referred to MARAC. • That high-risk cases coming into MASH are referred in a timely fashion. From Cambridgeshire Children Services • That where cases of domestic abuse are discussed at safeguarding meetings that IDVA services are represented where possible.

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should seek assurance from Cambridgeshire Children Services. i) that when Domestic Abuse and its damaging effects are recognised, that there is an effective assessment undertaken and effective multi-agency plan put in place to support children according to the risk being presented when thresholds are met, in particular those identified as high and medium risk. ii) that record keeping in similar cases, includes within the narrative sufficient detail to ensure it is clear who the perpetrator of the domestic abuse is.

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should seek assurance from Cambridgeshire Constabulary that the recording and investigation of domestic abuse offences is appropriate to be able to support and sustain a prosecution and will not be limited by statutory limitations, as was the case with the December 2017 assault and that the following investigation is effective.

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should write a practice note to make all agencies aware of the provisions of the Domestic Abuse Disclosure Scheme and ensure that due consideration is given to it when there are previous instances of domestic abuse. Further awareness should be considered to coincide and complement the Domestic Abuse Bill 2020.

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should consider convening with their partners a practitioner event across the Fenland area for professionals and agencies using this case to highlight the effect of alcohol and coercive and controlling behaviour and domestic abuse.

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should seek assurance from Cambridgeshire County Council Education Safeguarding Team that they have or will provide advice that at the student intake process, it includes an enquiry as to the status of the parent/carer/guardian and to establish if there are any care or guardianship orders in place.

The Cambridgeshire Clinical Commissioning Group should brief health practitioners that when they identify or are informed about substance misuse and/or anger management issues, in a patient, this should trigger professional curiosity regarding the potential for domestic abuse in the household.

Fenland CSP and County DASV Partnership should ensure the impact of alcohol and its links to domestic abuse still forms part of any awareness raising events and they reflect current best practise and provides practitioners with the tools to identify alcohol related domestic abuse and the ability to sign post perpetrators to appropriate support services

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should be assured that where CGL Drug and Alcohol Services receive a disclosure regarding domestic abuse that a referral is made to domestic abuse services.

The Fenland Community Safety Partnership should work with the Domestic Violence Strategic Partnership to highlight the risk of non-fatal strangulation and use this case to initiate training and awareness of the new offence and how this will feature in risk assessment.