Kirklees review

That Kirklees Safer Stronger Communities Partnership will seek formal assurance from all partners and local providers of domestic abuse services that coercive controlling behaviour is incorporated into all domestic abuse training programmes provided by the organisation

CAMHS practitioner’s to be updated regarding their roles and responsibilities when a child makes a disclosure of domestic abuse the importance of understanding the emotional impact of domestic abuse on children even when they are not being directly targeted.

All Outpatient staff to undergo awareness training on Domestic Abuse; to identify domestic abuse, how to appropriately refer to specialist services and multi-agency discussions e.g. MARAC.

The Practice will display posters containing domestic abuse information in areas accessed by patients to encourage patients to have the confidence to disclose. Leaflets containing specific information of how to access local services should be available to staff in consultation rooms and to patients in communal rooms. This further information will support the staff in the Practice to identify where to seek support when a patient does disclose.

That Kirklees Safer Stronger Communities Partnership incorporates the impact of domestic abuse on children when offering advice and materials to victims and perpetrators

To utilise poster and leaflet space with DA specialist services available for patients attending from Calderdale area as well as Kirklees.

The authors of this IMR will contact the Practice and the individual GP who left the Practice on 1/4/17 to share the learning following review and approval from NHS England.

That Kirklees Safer Stronger Communities Partnership seek assurance from education and children’s social care as to the following. That when a child displays challenging behaviour at school, and the parents are living apart, there is a process for informing or engaging both parents in trying to solve the problem (unless there is a legal or safeguarding obstacle to this happening).

To specially train the Safeguarding Champions for outpatients to a higher level so that they can risk assess and carry out face to face consultations with a patient who may disclose domestic abuse whilst visiting their department.

The learning from this case which includes depression being a potential marker for domestic abuse should be shared with all GP Practices in Kirklees.

That Kirklees Safer Stronger Communities Partnership identifies to the appropriate Government department the need to have ‘Clare’s Law’ prominently displayed on internet dating sites.

Given much of the historical context of this case was in Greater Manchester, Kirklees Safer Stronger Communities Partnership are to share the report with Greater Manchester Community Safety Partnership so they can review if there is any learning they could have taken from their previous involvement