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

Bristol review

CSP: Bristol Published: May 2023 Year of death: 2016 Extracted: 10 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 review identified systemic issues including inconsistent and incomplete risk assessments, fragmented information sharing across and within agencies, and challenges in the victim's engagement due to distrust of services. It also highlighted limited focus on the perpetrator's interventions and the need for a lead professional in complex domestic abuse cases.

Extracted recommendations

10 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	A review of the running of meetings by Children’s Services	Bristol City Council Children’s Services
10	The Home Office, with the National Probation Service, should review current practices in sentencing to establish whether best practice is being followed to allow proper time to provide effective rehabilitation.	Home Office \| National Probation Service
2	Each agency involved in information sharing from multi agency meetings to dip sample a small number of cases to identify how the information gets shared and whether it is readily available to frontline workers to enable and inform operational activity	Multiple agencies
3	Having an identified single individual/agency who can act as ‘Lead’ for certain domestic abuse victims may result in better assessment and therefore management of risk towards them	Bristol Community Safety Partnership
4	Review not only what recommendations have been made and completed by DHR’s in Bristol, but also what difference that has made	Bristol Community Safety Partnership
5	The CSP to have evidence based data on where to best apply limited resources	Bristol Community Safety Partnership
6	The RSVP work locally with perpetrators of domestic abuse is limited in the number of people it can work with and is short term funded. A proper review of the performance of this scheme in reducing re-offending should be undertaken	Bristol Community Safety Partnership
7	A review of current practice by dip sampling of a number of risk assessments across all agencies to assess accuracy, necessity and what was changed as a result	Bristol Community Safety Partnership
8	The concept of having a lead agency/professional for certain individuals based on the risk to them or the complexity of issues affecting their lives is one that is recommended for consideration by the CSP	Bristol Community Safety Partnership
9	It is requested that the Home Office review both the title of such reviews and the content of its Guidance document	Home Office
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗