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
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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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
Agencies, particularly primary care, missed opportunities to identify domestic abuse indicators due to insufficient training, policies, and risk assessment tools, compounded by a lack of cultural awareness. There was also a general lack of public and employer awareness regarding domestic abuse signs and reporting pathways.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Training for GPs and their staff about risk factors for DVA and available resources, training about MARAC process, improve understanding around confidentiality in safeguarding | Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group |
| 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 identify, support and manage people experiencing Domestic abuse, including access to a reputable risk assessment tool | Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group |
| 3 | Practices should recognise the links between DVA and safeguarding children and young people, Practices should have a safeguarding lead and meet regularly to discuss safeguarding issues Where possible this should include multiagency representation (CCG safeguarding lead, HV, DVA advocate/educator) | Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group |
| 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 ↗ | ||