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

Kent review

CSP: Kent Published: May 2023 Year of death: 2015 Extracted: 13 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 report identifies themes of missed opportunities by agencies to recognise the victim's vulnerability and the exploitation she experienced. Key concerns include a lack of professional curiosity, insufficient multi-agency information sharing, and inadequate risk assessments regarding the perpetrators' living arrangements and their impact on the victim.

Extracted recommendations

13 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	Front line officers or staff who, as part of their job description, visit premises or interact with members of the public, have the opportunity to identify potential victims of ‘Mate Crime’ or Domestic Abuse. Officers and staff should be encouraged to exercise ‘professional curiosity’ and follow up on indications of an abusive relationship or safeguarding issues that relate to a person who may not be the primary focus of their work.	Police \| EKH \| Thanet Council \| Kent and Medway Social Services \| KMPT \| SECAmb \| NPS \| CRC \| Kent YOS
10	In considering the appropriateness of accommodation for persons leaving prison or detention centres, agencies involved should use their own risk assessment processes to determine the suitability of the premises in respect of the vulnerability of existing occupants. Information from risk assessments should be shared with other agencies.	Social Services \| NPS \| YOS \| Housing Providers
11	When adult offenders have been previously subject to youth offending supervision, liaison must take place with the previous allocated YOT worker/s in order to gather information to inform risk assessment and risk management.	NPS \| YOS
12	When offenders subject to statutory supervision are related, professionals with offender management responsibility must work collaboratively in order to build a holistic view of the family to inform the assessment and management of risk.	NPS \| YOS
13	This review and its recommendations should be brought to the attention of the Kent and Medway Adult Safeguarding Board. In so doing the Board and its member organisations may be able to provide guidance and a degree of consistency to those charged with implementing recommendations particularly relating to the use of professional curiosity, mate crime and self neglect.	Kent and Medway Adult Safeguarding Board
2	Where there are complaints of Anti-Social Behaviour, it is important to establish who is the victim, who is the perpetrator and whether they are vulnerable and in need of assessment.	Kent Police \| East Kent Housing \| Thanet District Council
3	The concept of ‘Mate Crime’ or the harming of vulnerable persons in abusive relationships by offenders who set out or take the opportunity to abuse a victim, should be incorporated into agencies policies and working practice, and staff should be trained accordingly. This type of offending should be treated in a similar way to Domestic Abuse e.g. structured risk assessment, information sharing protocols, victim safeguarding plans etc.	Police \| EKH \| Thanet Council \| Kent and Medway Social Services \| KMPT
4	Housing providers should undertake a risk assessment when they are aware that someone has moved into a property with a potentially vulnerable tenant.	East Kent Housing \| Thanet District Council
5	To facilitate information exchange, East Kent Housing to attend formal and minuted Tasking and Coordinating Meetings held by the Thanet Community Safety Unit.	East Kent Housing \| Thanet District Council \| Thanet CSU
6	To provide each GP practice with an up to date adult safeguarding policy that reflects national and local guidance and best practice to guide and support staff in responding to victim and perpetrators of domestic abuse and self-neglect.	Kent and Medway CCG’s \| NHS England
7	In exercising their responsibility in assisting young adults leaving care, Social Services should endeavour to ensure such individuals are registered with a GP, (none of the perpetrators were registered with a GP at the time they attacked the victim).	Kent and Medway Social Services
8	Agencies should recognise that an individual’s safety and wellbeing may be, in whole or in part, compromised by self-neglect rather than abuse inflicted by a third person. Agencies should ensure that published guidance on self-neglect is both delivered in training and conformed to as outlined in the Kent and Medway Adult Safeguarding Board Policy.	All agencies
9	Social Services have a responsibility to assist young adults leaving care, which will include helping them find suitable accommodation in which to live. In addition to establishing the accommodation is suitable for the care leaver, a risk assessment should also take place intended to identify safeguarding issues in relation to the existing occupants.	Kent Social Services \| Medway Social Services
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗