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.

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Bolton review

CSP: Bolton Published: May 2023 Year of death: 2013 Extracted: 8 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

Agencies, particularly GPs, missed opportunities to identify domestic abuse indicators and assess risk due to lack of specific policies, training, and cultural awareness. Friends and employers also lacked knowledge on how to respond to disclosures.

Extracted recommendations

8 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	Training for GPs and their staff about risk factors for DVA and available resources	NHS Bolton CCG
1	To raise the awareness of clinicians of their role in offering locally available support to people who disclose domestic abuse through safeguarding adults training	Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
2	Practices should have a clear, simple guide to safeguarding people at risk of domestic abuse	NHS Bolton CCG
3	Practices should recognise the links between DVA and safeguarding children and young people	NHS Bolton CCG
i	The Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership considers ways in which friends, colleagues and families can better understand the risk factors and indicators in relation to domestic abuse and violence and are provided with clear and simple advice in relation to the action they can take to reduce risk and harm to someone they suspect is at risk of domestic abuse or violence as well as HBV, forced marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM);	Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership
ii	The Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership engages with private sector employers in their area so as to; (a) Raise awareness amongst employers, managers and their staff about the need to recognise the indicators of domestic abuse and what to do if they suspect it is happening; (b) Encourage employers to have policies or procedures in place for handling disclosures about, or suspicions of, domestic abuse and violence as well as HBV, Forced Marriage and FGM within their workplaces. Such engagement might be achieved by contact with representative organisations such as the Chamber of Commerce or Federation of Small Businesses;	Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership
iii	That the Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership explores opportunities to improve awareness of domestic abuse amongst communities in general and Black Asian Minority Ethnic Refugee (BAMER) communities in particular Asian people through tactics such as printing leaflets in community languages, and group work including women only sessions, improve access to specialist advice to improve empowerment and help build confidence;	Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership
iv	Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership to coordinate collaboration between primary care and third sector organisations specialising in Domestic Abuse, to create enhanced identification by GPs of Domestic Abuse Indicators and improved pathways from GPs to specialised Domestic Abuse Services	Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗