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Kensington and Chelsea review

CSP: Kensington and Chelsea Published: April 2023 Year of death: 2017 Extracted: 10 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 a lack of agency contact with the victim and perpetrator, despite the victim experiencing chronic coercive control and economic abuse. Key concerns include the need for professionals to recognise subtle signs of abuse, challenge victim stereotypes, and for communities to be better equipped to support those affected.

Home Office classifications

19 tags

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

  • Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
  • Victim - immigration involvement
  • Perpetrator - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
  • Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - died by suicide
  • Perpetrator - immigration involvement
  • Aggravating factors - separation
  • Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
  • 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 - health services recommendations
  • DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
  • DHR process - housing services recommendations
  • DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
  • DHR process - training recommendation themes
  • DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

10 recommendations pulled from the report

Recommendation c

Addressed to VAWG Lead

A learning event to be held for professionals that focuses on addresses the dynamics of domestic abuse, coercive control, economic abuse and how power works

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

Recommendation c

Addressed to Three Borough Network | VAWG Lead | Women’s Aid National Ask Me Lead

Community Ambassadors to be recruited and trained as part of the ‘Ask Me’ project, building a local network that breaks the silence about domestic abuse

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

Recommendation d

Addressed to Children and Health Operational Group | VAWG Lead

GPs to be trained on understanding the dynamics of domestic abuse and coercive control and the need for routine enquiry

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

Recommendation d

Addressed to Housing Operational Group | Specialist services

Housing sales and legal conveyancing professionals to be trained on understanding how property can be used to exert economic abuse as a form of coercive control

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

Recommendation d

Addressed to VAWG Lead

All agencies and frontline professionals should consider the use of a DASH risk assessment where domestic abuse is featured even if it appears at a low threshold level

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

Recommendation d

Addressed to Multi-agency

The findings from this review to inform a local campaign to raise awareness of domestic abuse and to challenge the myth of who is a victim (i.e. women from affluent backgrounds) and who is a perpetrator

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

Recommendation e

Addressed to Children and Health Operational Group

The Children and Health Operational Group to identify GP surgeries and to share domestic abuse best practice and learning

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

Recommendation e

Addressed to Housing Operational Group | VAWG Lead | DAHA Coordinator

The Housing Operational Group to share domestic abuse best practice and learning with housing sales and legal conveyancing sectors

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

Recommendation f

Addressed to VAWG Strategic Board

VAWG Partnership to consider future commissioning of the IRIS model to embed learning with GPs

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

Recommendation f

Addressed to Specialist services | Housing Operational Group

Resources for estate agents on understanding how property can be used to exert economic abuse as a form of financial control i.e. through controlling house sales

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