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
St Helens review
CSP: St HelensPublished: June 2023Year of death: 2016Extracted: 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 identifies significant barriers for non-UK born residents, particularly the Polish community, in accessing domestic abuse support due to language and cultural issues, lack of specialist services, and inadequate staff training. It also highlights missed opportunities for agencies to identify risk, weaknesses in client re-engagement, and difficulties in neighbour reporting.
Home Office classifications
27 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Victim - immigration involvement
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Child - immigration involvement
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to workplace (employer) as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - immigration involvement
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - housing services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
7 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership (CSP) | St Helens Council
Local CSP members to amend their websites to enable non English-speaking residents to search for and access information re domestic abuse services in their own language.
CSP members to ensure they have translation and interpretation arrangements in place and that staff understand how to access interpreter and translation services when needed.
Amend web site to encourage and signpost ways in which victims and neighbours of victims can report domestic abuse to their Housing Managers and others.
Addressed to
Public Health | Chamber of Commerce | CGL (Change Grown Live)
Working with the Chamber of Commerce make literature available for display in employee meeting areas to businesses in St Helens available to businesses for display in meeting rooms and refreshment areas.