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

Lincoln review

CSP: Lincoln Published: June 2023 Year of death: 2016 Extracted: 6 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 DHR highlights a profound lack of understanding of coercive and controlling behaviour by both the family and professionals, leading to a failure to recognise and address long-term domestic abuse. It also notes the heightened risk of harm during or immediately after separation.

Extracted recommendations

6 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (LSCP) should convene a series of practitioner’s events across the County for agencies, using the lessons learned from this case. This will highlight the effect of controlling and coercive behaviour, also the risk posed at the time or immediately after a separation. The partnership could extend these events both regionally and nationally.	Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (LSCP)
2	The SLP should engage with the Home office or other national organisations, in order to engage nationally with learning concerning the significance of controlling and coercive behaviour. This is to consider a nationwide publicity campaign using the victims, Luke and Ryan’s life story as the case study. The purpose of this is to gain wider public understanding of what coercive control means. This will also enable perpetrators to recognise that their behaviour to their family is abusive and criminal. This could include leaflets and posters where appropriate.	Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (SLP)
3	The SLP should ensure that each statutory agency within their area provides assurance that its strategic safeguarding leads have raised training and awareness in their agency so that front-line staff can recognise the signs and symptoms of coercive and controlling behaviour as a form of domestic abuse.	Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (SLP)
4	The SLP should ask the CCG to issue a guidance note and consider training for all GP practices in their area highlighting the need to ask questions overtly about DA, and to require that they have up to date knowledge of Coercive Control as a form of domestic abuse.	Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (SLP)
5i	The SLP should ask the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) to consider adopting a coercive control-based definition in future children and domestic abuse work and moving beyond a physical incident model which would enable them to develop deeper understanding of these children’s lived experiences and support needs.	Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (SLP)
5ii	The SLP should ask the LSCB to consider making a request to schools within their area that the awareness sessions that they run on DA include controlling and coercive behaviour.	Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (SLP)
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗