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
Birmingham review
CSP: BirminghamPublished: May 2023Year of death: 2013Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review highlights historical missed opportunities by agencies to intervene in long-standing domestic abuse due to evolving understanding of coercive control and victim reluctance to report. It identifies a need for improved multi-agency information sharing, enhanced police response to unexplained deaths, and greater employer engagement in supporting victims.
Home Office classifications
28 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to workplace (employer) as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - employer recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 3 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Birmingham Community Safety Partnership
The BCSP should review how it produces current local material which is available to relatives, friends and colleagues and examine, if it provides information, which gives clear advice about what to do and how to do it.
Addressed to
Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group
The practice develops and puts into place a policy and procedure for domestic abuse. This policy should be linked to Solihull Community Partnership Domestic Abuse Standards, other safeguarding and relevant human resource policies and procedures.
The West Midlands Police to undertake a review of homicide investigations covering 2015 to 2016 to determine that those investigations, where there were domestic violence related aspects, were recognised as such. The review should establish that the correct intelligence checks had been undertaken on all involved to retrieve all known background history. The West Midlands Police will provide assurance to the BSCP agencies that management oversight is exercised in all homicide investigations and will include monitoring evidence of domestic violence and abuse.
Addressed to
Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group
The practice has systems in place to monitor and review that practice staff are consistent in applying the domestic abuse policies related to staff and patients.
Addressed to
Birmingham Community Safety Partnership
The Birmingham Community Safety Partnership must develop a Local Strategy under the umbrella of the national Violence against Women and Girls strategy 2016-2020 to engage with private employers to promote knowledge of domestic violence and abuse and the implementation of policies and procedures to support employees.
This report should be shared with the employing organisation formally by the BCSP to enable learning to take place in the organisation. The Employing organisation should be supported to develop and implement a domestic violence policy and procedure that ensures a safe, empowering and supportive response to victims, and assists work colleagues about what to do when domestic violence and abuse is identified or disclosed.