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Source · Domestic Homicide Review

Newcastle upon Tyne review

CSP: Newcastle upon Tyne Published: April 2023 Year of death: 2014 Extracted: 4 recs

Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.

Original review (PDF) ↗ Source: Home Office DHR Library

Summary AI-generated

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The review identified systemic barriers for non-UK born residents, particularly the Polish community, in accessing domestic abuse support due to language and cultural issues, and a lack of specialist services. It also highlighted missed opportunities by agencies to identify domestic abuse, failures in following up on non-engagement with services, and the absence of recorded neighbour reports.

Home Office classifications

30 tags

Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.

  • Victim - alcohol misuse
  • Victim - substance misuse
  • Victim - mental ill health
  • Victim - depression
  • Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
  • Perpetrator - case heard in court
  • Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
  • Perpetrator - mental ill health
  • Perpetrator - cognitive disorder (dementia or alzheimer's disease)
  • Perpetrator - depression
  • Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Aggravating factors - physical abuse
  • DHR process - family received draft report
  • DHR process - police recommendations
  • DHR process - social services recommendations
  • DHR process - health services recommendations
  • DHR process - probation services recommendations
  • DHR process - employer recommendations
  • DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
  • 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 - multi agency working recommendation themes
  • DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
  • DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
  • DHR process - other recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

4 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index

Recommendation 1

Addressed to Community Safety Partnership Partner agencies

CSP members to amend their websites to enable non English-speaking residents to search for and access information re domestic abuse services in their own language.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation 4

Addressed to Home Office

Increased support for existing charities and organisations which work with victims of domestic violence from BME communities

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation 5

Addressed to Torus Housing Group

Amend web site to encourage and signpost ways in which victims and neighbours of victims can report domestic abuse to their Housing Managers and others.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation 6

Addressed to CCG

Policy and procedures to follow up missed appointments following CAHMS referrals to G.P. put into place

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗