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
Bassetlaw review
CSP: BassetlawPublished: April 2023Year of death: 2016Extracted: 2 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The DHR found no evidence of domestic abuse or agency failings in the specific case. Key learning points relate to improving carer's assessments to identify domestic abuse challenges in older couples and increasing professional awareness of age-related barriers to reporting abuse.
Home Office classifications
16 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - physical disability
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - cognitive disorder (dementia or alzheimer's disease)
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
DHR process - family received draft report
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 - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
2 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Nottinghamshire County Council Adult Social Care | Bassetlaw Clinical Commissioning Group | Newark and Sherwood Clinical Commissioning Group
To conduct a review of carer’s assessments and consider how they identify or enquire into domestic abuse based in the challenges associated with domestic abuse, age and carer responsibilities from spouse/partner.
Addressed to
Bassetlaw, Newark & Sherwood Community Safety Partnership
Provide greater awareness to professionals regarding the impact of age on domestic abuse, the barriers to reporting and the provision of services to older people.