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
Wycombe review
CSP: Wycombe
Published: April 2023
Extracted: 14 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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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The report highlights fragmented agency responses, missed opportunities to identify and address domestic abuse and mental health issues, and inconsistent information sharing, particularly concerning the victim's disclosures and the specific needs of the Traveller community.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manager and Deputy Managers for the Chiltern Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team (formerly assessment function) to routinely monitor the quality of assessments and risk assessments during managerial supervision, reviewing two per month of each clinician to ensure that staff are completing all necessary paperwork. | Oxford Health (NHS) Foundation Trust – Mental Health Services |
| 10 | Red Kite and Wycombe District Housing Authorities (Buckinghamshire from 1st April 2020) review the sign-up procedures to ensure that all clients are asked if the need support to read and understand any documents they are sent or asked to sign. | Red Kite Housing | Buckinghamshire Council |
| 11 | The Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Referral Procedure is clear about which service has lead responsibility and that the identified lead agency will be responsible for managing the case and sharing of information with relevant organisations. | Buckinghamshire Community Safety Partnership |
| 12 | Front line services are to remind relevant staff that in appropriate cases a multi-agency Professionals Meeting can be called to ensure a co-ordinated response is delivered. | Buckinghamshire Community Safety Partnership |
| 13 | All Services involved in Review are to verify that there is currently support for those engaging with their service if they cannot read or write. If this provision is not currently in place, steps are to be taken to include such support in the relevant policies and procedures. | Thames Valley Police | Oxford Health (NHS) Foundation Trust | Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group | Buckinghamshire Council | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Wycombe Women’s Aid | Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service | Red Kite Housing | South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
| 14 | A multi-agency awareness raising event is held for key frontline staff to improve their knowledge and understanding of matters relating to Travellers and domiciled Travellers. | Buckinghamshire Community Safety Partnership |
| 2 | Patients should be appropriately coded/flagged as Victims of Domestic Abuse within GP notes. This can be achieved by training to all the GP safeguarding leads in Bucks at PSLN sessions (practice safeguarding leads network) | Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) General Practitioner (GP) |
| 3 | Training to all GP safeguarding leads on awareness of the higher risk of abuse in at risk groups, which includes the travelling community. | Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) General Practitioner (GP) |
| 4 | Buckinghamshire Council to review the effectiveness of learning and development courses that are available to practitioners regarding Domestic Abuse | Buckinghamshire Council |
| 5 | Housing Officers to be reminded that if anybody fleeing domestic abuse fails to contact or disengages that they conclude the case by trying to establish whether the client is safe or has returned to the abuser. | Wycombe District Council (now Buckinghamshire Council) - Housing |
| 6 | If a client fails to turn up or take up the offer of accommodation and there are concerns about domestic abuse, the case officer is to ensure that a report is sent to relevant third parties advising that the applicant had failed to turn up and that their housing case is closed. | Wycombe District Council (now Buckinghamshire Council) - Housing |
| 7 | Review the current tenancy sign up process, to include home visits to improve the process for both tenants and Red Kite. | Red Kite Housing |
| 8 | Red Kite Community Housing ASB policy to be reviewed to include completion of a Domestic Abuse process health check. | Red Kite Housing |
| 9 | The ‘Refusal to Travel to Hospital’ form is to be strengthened with some additional wording to show the signatory understands the risks of not attending hospital. | South Central Ambulance Service |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||