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

Stockport review

CSP: Stockport Published: April 2023 Year of death: 2014 Extracted: 22 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 that the perpetrator's inadequately treated psychosis was the root cause of the homicide, exacerbated by a lack of information sharing across services and within the family. Inadequate risk assessments, care planning, and missed opportunities for intervention were also significant concerns.

Home Office classifications

35 tags

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

  • Victim - was a carer
  • Victim - carer for perpetrator
  • Victim - carer assessed
  • Victim - anxiety
  • Victim - depression
  • Victim - serious or life limiting illness
  • Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
  • Children - living with victim (including adult children)
  • Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
  • Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
  • Child - primary address same as victim
  • Perpetrator - case heard in court
  • Perpetrator - mental ill health
  • Perpetrator - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
  • Perpetrator - psychosis
  • Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - supervised by mental health services
  • Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
  • Aggravating factors - faith based abuse
  • Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
  • Aggravating factors - physical abuse
  • DHR process - family contributed to dhr
  • DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
  • DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
  • DHR process - family received draft report
  • DHR process - health services 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 - other recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

22 recommendations pulled from the report · 18 matched to organisations in the index

Recommendation 1

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust : should ensure that the quality of care and contingency plans is audited, including the checking of plans against identified needs

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Recommendation 2

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust : should amend the CPA policy to describe the role of the psychiatrist with regard to the CPA policy and care planning

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Recommendation 3

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust : CPA policy should provide guidance on assessment and CPA care planning to clarify responsibilities and requirements where there are carers funded by direct payments

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Recommendation 4

Addressed to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council should develop a system to follow up on plans and interventions after carers assessments and co-ordinate interventions with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust where the carer is caring for a mental health service user

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Recommendation 5

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust : should ensure that NICE CG178 ( Psychosis and schizophrenia in adults: prevention and management) is implemented and monitored

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Recommendation 6

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust | Stockport CCG

For Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport CCG : implement a system for follow up and monitoring of GP physical health checks re psychiatric medication

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Recommendation 7

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust | Stockport CCG | Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

For Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport CCG & Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council : audit of implementation of the autism strategy, and resources to support staff & patients who are diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

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Recommendation 8

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust : Ensure that clinical decisions about changes to pathways or services should include the care team, and there is evidence that the perspectives of patient and carers have been considered, taken into account and documented

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Recommendation 9

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust : change approach to Risk Assessment training, to focus on formulations; and implement a quality assurance process for Risk Assessments

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Recommendation 10

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust | Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust & Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council : should have triggers for responding to crisis calls and an escalation process in place

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Recommendation 11

Addressed to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust : should set a clear strategy for the recognition of domestic abuse, with up to date policy guidance and a programme of staff training

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Recommendation 12

Addressed to Stockport Community Safety Partnership

Stockport Community Safety Partnership : should assess the results of the Domestic Abuse strategy thus far, with emphasis on increasing the access to training to frontline healthcare staff, and ensuring that child to parent violence is included

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Recommendation 13

Addressed to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust : should ensure the lessons learned from this incident with specific regard to domestic abuse and violence are conveyed across the Trust, and particularly in the Emergency Department

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Recommendation 14

Addressed to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust : should revise its admission and discharge documentation to include a prompt regarding carers needs and signposting to a plan of care and an assessment before discharge

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Recommendation 15

Addressed to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council : should assess the efficacy of the current multi-agency approach to carers needs, along with partner organisations, and implement a strategy to ensure the aims of the position statement are carried out

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Recommendation 16

Addressed to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust : should revise the recording systems to ensure a complete and contemporaneous record is maintained of all clinical encounters

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Recommendation 17

Addressed to Stockport CCG

Stockport CCG : formal processes must be in place so that multiagency risk assessments are carried out for all vulnerable children and their carers on transition from children to adult services

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Recommendation 18

Addressed to Stockport CCG

Stockport CCG: GP practice staff must undertake adult safeguarding and domestic abuse training.

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Recommendation 19

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust | Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust : Domestic abuse training material should be reviewed to ensure that it includes domestic abuse in both children and adults safeguarding; including that any individual in a domestic arrangement may abuse anyone else in that setting

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Recommendation 20

Addressed to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust : Fully implement NICE guidance ‘Domestic violence and abuse: multi-agency working’ (PH50) recommendation 5: ‘Create an environment for disclosing domestic violence and abuse’ with particular emphasis on consistent implementation of policy, and recording of information

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Recommendation 21

Addressed to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust : change incident reporting and management policy to implement structures and processes as described in NHS Serious Incident Framework March 2015

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Recommendation 22

Addressed to Stockport Community Safety Partnership

Stockport Community Safety Partnership : guidance on domestic abuse by children to parents should be included in domestic abuse strategies

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