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

Dorset review

CSP: Dorset Published: April 2023 Year of death: 2012 Extracted: 11 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

The review highlights a lack of understanding of child-to-parent abuse, inconsistent multi-agency information sharing, and failures in assessing the perpetrator's mental health and educational needs. It also notes a missed opportunity to recognise adolescent neglect and assess the victim's risk.

Extracted recommendations

11 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
6.1	Dorset Safeguarding Children Board and the Dorset Community Safety Partnership should work together to develop a strategy which provides a clear pathway for intervention, taking account of the needs of the parent and the child.	Dorset Safeguarding Children Board \| Dorset Community Safety Partnership
6.10	The Community Safety Partnership in Dorset should request that the MARAC Steering Group review the MARAC Operating Protocol in order to ensure that they address the use of MARAC in situations of parent abuse.	Dorset Community Safety Partnership
6.11	The Chair of the Community Safety Partnership should bring the findings of this review to the attention of the MARAC Steering Group who will liaise with CAADA (Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse) to inform national guidelines.	Dorset Community Safety Partnership
6.2	Practitioners working with children and adults should receive information about parent abuse and appropriate structures and tools to assist their practice.	Dorset Safeguarding Children Board \| Dorset Community Safety Partnership
6.3	Dorset Safeguarding Children Board should promote a greater understanding of the signs, indicators and impact of adolescent neglect, and the potential confusion between expected adolescent behaviour and behaviour resulting from compromised parenting.	Dorset Safeguarding Children Board
6.4	Dorset Safeguarding Children Board should work with partner agencies to ensure that senior managers are clear with front line staff about the expected response to adolescent neglect and that this is taken into account when reviewing priorities and resources.	Dorset Safeguarding Children Board
6.5	The strategy for the delivery of CAMHS services across Dorset should be reviewed in line with the recommendations of Lord Carlile’s review of The Edlington case with a view to developing links between Children’s Services and CAMHS to achieve the best possible assessment and response to conduct disorder.	NHS Dorset
6.6	Schools should ensure that every effort is made to retrieve information from previous schools when pupils move into the Dorset area.	Schools in Dorset
6.7	Children’s Services should promote assessment practice within Children’s Social Care and YOT that gathers information about family history and background from the young person themselves as well as significant family members.	Dorset Children’s Services \| Youth Offending Team
6.8	Children’s Services should ensure that a full assessment that addresses risk issues is carried out for any pupil whom it has been impossible to engage in education. This should take account of any known information from Education, Social Care, YOT and health organisations.	Dorset Children’s Services
6.9	The importance of the current GP self-assessment tool implemented by NHS Dorset should be reinforced in respect of question 13, which focuses on linking family members within GP records.	NHS Dorset
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗