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
Stoke-on-Trent review
CSP: Stoke-on-TrentPublished: May 2023Year of death: 2015Extracted: 7 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified shortcomings in Adult Social Care assessment processes, particularly regarding carer suitability and risk assessment, and noted a lack of comprehensive monitoring of the victim's alcohol abstinence and support needs post-discharge. Agencies also had limited awareness of the long-standing fractious relationship between the victim and the perpetrator.
Home Office classifications
29 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - cognitive disorder (dementia or alzheimer's disease)
Victim - self harm
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - was a carer
Perpetrator - carer for victim
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - psychosis
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
7 recommendations pulled from the report · 5 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Stoke-on-Trent Responsible Authorities Group
The Stoke-on-Trent Responsible Authorities Group should seek assurance that consideration of the suitability of carers and any risks posed by them is included in agencies’ frameworks for the assessment of informal carers and hospital discharge planning arrangements.
Addressed to
Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group
The Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group should seek assurance that providers of health services for the medical consequences of alcohol abuse have in place pathways which encourage patients to access specialist services to address their future alcohol consumption.
Addressed to
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Staff to ensure that they assess service users’ alcohol consumption using a recognised tool especially those that have a history of excessive alcohol use.
All identified as supporting an individual by providing a caring role will be fully involved in the assessment process and their ability and willingness to fulfil that role will be determined and support to carry out that role will be provided where needed and deemed appropriate.