Shropshire review

Shropshire Community Safety Partnership to review current local arrangements for raising awareness of the range and availability of domestic abuse support services.

SCSP to ensure that this effective quality assurance process is introduced for the patient alert process for the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

SCSP to undertake an audit of multi-agency domestic abuse training.

West Mercia Police to introduce version control for policy development and to secure outdated policies within the organisational corporate memory to assist in informing any future review processes.

West Mercia Police in the absence of a Risk Management Plan to record all local policing support visits on the ‘CO1’ crime or incident record.

West Mercia Police need to consider risk assessment levels when impacted by dynamic factors i.e. residence and prohibition of access to victims. Consideration should be given to the ongoing management of cases and utilising a risk management plan where appropriate.

West Mercia Police to report progress against the HMIC action plan to ensure a 10% dip sample of standard risk cases.

West Mercia Police to ensure that when information is being shared with partner agencies the actual relationship between perpetrators and those to be subject of risk review activity is explicitly clear.

West Mercia Police to remind officers that all high risk must be referred to MARAC, and additionally that there is sufficient flexibility, subject to MARAC capacity to refer other cases.

West Mercia Police to review current policy and working practice to ensure that in the event of discontinuance of a prosecution and/or the withdrawal of support for an investigation by a victim, this is consistently drawn to the attention of the harm assessment unit for them to consider the need to review the level of risk.

West Mercia Police to review the feasibility of managing cases where a restraining or other protection order exist by way of a risk management plan.

West Mercia Police to establish a process whereby protection orders are routinely shared with the Probation Service for managed offenders.

West Mercia Police witness care unit need to consider, in conjunction with CPS, the most effective practice to engage with victims who are protected by court orders granted as part of criminal proceedings to ensure the victim understand the terms of the order and what would constitute a breach.

Shropshire Council Children’s Services to ensure that social workers and managers do not rely on one source of information (alone), in particular self-reporting, and must ensure that there is regular and ongoing dialogue with all key professionals and agencies involved with a family.

Shropshire Council Children’s Services should ensure that all assessments with non-abusing parents are conducted in a therapeutic and supportive manner when considering the parents ability to protect a child.

Shropshire Council Children’s services to ensure that in every case the perpetrator is seen and an assessment in respect of the risk posed by the perpetrator to the child should be completed.

Shropshire Council Children’s Services must ensure that their audit activity ensures that there is sufficient scrutiny of case decisions, case recording and management oversight.