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
Basildon review
CSP: BasildonPublished: April 2023Extracted: 7 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified a lack of awareness and recognition of coercive control and domestic abuse dynamics in young relationships by both the victim and professionals. There were missed opportunities by agencies to identify and respond to the perpetrator's abusive behaviours and mental health issues, exacerbated by fragmented information across services.
Home Office classifications
34 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - self harm
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - adjustment disorder
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - self harm
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to mental health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - school recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
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
7 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group
Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group to engage with the new Sexual Health Services provider to ensure that they are following the good practice developed by NELFT that has been highlighted in this review; if it is not in place, for action to be taken to establish new processes. To also work with all commissioned providers of sexual health services to ensure that training from relevant experts supports routine enquiry and that enquiry is conducted in the most safe and appropriate way.
NHS England to share the findings from this Review, particularly drawing out the learning for General Practices, with those practices that were involved in the case.
Addressed to
Basildon Community Safety Partnership
Basildon Community Safety Partnership to develop a project to work with local employers to improve awareness and responses to domestic abuse, including through workplace policies and training.
Changing Pathways to utilise the learning from this Review, and the knowledge gained through supporting the development of the Essex-wide awareness campaign to inform their own leaflets, posters and ways of advertising their service locally; to ensure that the information provided about its services ‘speaks’ to young people.
Addressed to
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service to incorporate the development and implementation of safe and appropriate responses to young (potential) domestic abuse perpetrators within its service, with reference to the information provided by Respect15.
New College Swindon to use the learning from this Review to: carry out (or commission) training for staff to develop in depth understanding of domestic abuse and young people and ensure that they are able to provide safe and appropriate responses to suspected victims and perpetrators; and to ensure information is displayed and communicated to students about available support if they have concerns about their own relationship.
New College Swindon to use the learning from this Review to take action to ensure that information received by college lecturers and other academic (non-pastoral) staff about students being in contact with support services is recorded.