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

Cardiff review

CSP: Cardiff Published: June 2023 Year of death: 2016 Extracted: 16 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 report highlights the extreme vulnerability of international students to coercive control and financial abuse, alongside missed opportunities by health and police agencies to identify domestic abuse and intervene, exacerbated by cultural barriers to disclosure.

Extracted recommendations

16 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
15.1.1	Awareness raising about domestic abuse, how and to whom to report it and the associated services that are available to victims (for overseas students in particular) should be commissioned	Multiple Agencies
15.1.2	Efforts should be made to engage with the Chinese communities in Cardiff specifically around domestic abuse and the services that are available to victims	Multiple Agencies
15.1.3	That agencies should explore whether contingency plans can be put in place to mitigate the impact of a victim not being contactable by telephone.	Multiple Agencies
15.2.1	To seek to develop with the police an updated Information sharing protocol to include a means of identifying whether a victim of domestic abuse is a student	Cardiff Metropolitan University \| South Wales Police
15.3.1	South Wales Police to work towards finalisation of the Information Sharing Protocol currently in development to strengthen and enhance the sharing of safeguarding information between the force and the universities in its area.	South Wales Police
15.3.2	Training to be amended to reflect the importance of enquiring about and recording on PPNs where victims and/or perpetrators of domestic abuse are university students and where they study.	South Wales Police
15.3.3	Risk-assessment processes to be updated to include the sharing of PPNs with Police Student Liaison Officers where either the victim or perpetrator disclose that they are university students.	South Wales Police
15.3.4	Staff to be reminded of: The importance of speaking to the reporting person to clarify information and recording accurately any differences between the original report and subsequent details provided by them. If there is no additional information provided, this must also be recorded.	South Wales Police
15.3.5	Staff to be reminded of: The need to challenge victims and perpetrators with the information provided by the reporting person where appropriate.	South Wales Police
15.3.6	Staff to be reminded of: The requirement to record all relevant information on the PPN, including phone numbers and any additional contextual information.	South Wales Police
15.4.1	That health professionals seek clarity from the Home Office about what information can be disclosed about a perpetrator and in what circumstances	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
15.4.2	That health professionals seek that their obligations around the disclosure of medical information is encapsulated in statute rather than merely in the Home Office guidance and Department of Health recommendations	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
15.4.3	General Practitioner (GP) practices in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board to consider using a standardised proforma compatible with the Department of Sexual Health guidance when consulting with patients within the GP surgery on sexual health matters. NICE guidelines indicate that specific questions asked help people to disclose their past or current experiences of violence or abuse	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
15.4.4	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board ensure that domestic abuse training for staff is compatible with the National Training Framework set out by Welsh Government	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
15.4.5	Cardiff and Vale GP practices demonstrate that they are compatible with domestic abuse training for staff in line with the Welsh Government National Training Framework	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
15.4.6	Cardiff and Vale UHB to remind staff of their individual accountability to patient documentation relating to legibility and robust documentation including appropriate presentation and compatibility of history	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗