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

Birmingham review

CSP: Birmingham Published: April 2023 Year of death: 2013 Extracted: 8 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

Agencies failed to consistently identify and respond to escalating domestic abuse, particularly its coercive and controlling nature, due to communication barriers, inadequate risk assessment, and insufficient information sharing. Missed opportunities to safeguard the victim and children were compounded by a focus on immediate physical threat over patterns of control.

Extracted recommendations

8 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	The Community Safety Partnership should consider whether policy and practice guidance in relation to inquiry and assessment relating to domestic abuse gives sufficient attention to professional mind-set and victim behaviour.	Community Safety Partnership
2	The Community Safety Partnership should review the effectiveness of strategies for communicating and signposting victims of domestic abuse to specialist advice and support to respond to victims and children who have experienced domestic abuse.	Community Safety Partnership
3	The Community Safety Partnership should ensure that information is submitted on the implementation of the action plan submitted to the domestic homicide review by the early years and education services.	Community Safety Partnership
4	The Community Safety Partnership should ensure that revisions to the S11 and S175 audit safeguarding children audit tool incorporates learning from this and other domestic homicide reviews.	Community Safety Partnership
5	The Community Safety Partnership should ensure that the review of the provision of advice services in the city is fully sighted on the difficulties that this victim of domestic violence experienced in obtaining an appointment for advice services. Future plans arising from both the review of advice services and the review of domestic violence should secure a clear pathway for advice and support for domestic violence victims.	Community Safety Partnership
6	The Community Safety Partnership should seek further information from services regarding the availability of appropriately trained interpreters.	Community Safety Partnership
7	The Community Safety Partnership should seek further information from the statutory director for children’s services regarding the capacity of the service to participate in statutory reviews.	Community Safety Partnership
8	The Community Safety Partnership should request information from agencies about the extent to which they rely on e-learning or similar strategies for raising awareness and knowledge of staff regarding domestic abuse.	Community Safety Partnership
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗