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
Dorset review
CSP: DorsetPublished: June 2023Year of death: 2011Extracted: 4 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 concerns regarding inadequate risk assessment and management in cases of inter-familial domestic violence, particularly for same-gender relationships. It highlights failures in inter-agency information sharing and a lack of appropriate support for the perpetrator's complex needs.
Home Office classifications
30 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
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - removed into care
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
Perpetrator - self harm
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to probation services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - probation services recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
4 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Dorset County Domestic Violence Strategy Group | Poole and Bournemouth Domestic Violence Strategy Group
Widen views across agencies regarding the understanding of definitions of domestic violence and how current approaches need to be streamlined to enable relevant issues to be taken into the MARAC procedures .
Addressed to
Dorset County Domestic Violence Strategy Group | Poole and Bournemouth Domestic Violence Strategy Group | Police | Probation services
Using relevant national research into same gender and inter-familial domestic violence agree processes for widening the brief of domestic violence and abuse training to include same gender and inter-familial scenarios and working with relationships where perpetrator and victim are “interchangeable”. Police and probation to feed this into their respective training models.
Police and probation services to work together to develop an enhanced understanding of higher risk and identify trigger factors that will lead to staff carrying out a joint full risk assessment and problem profile and collecting all relevant available historical data.
Addressed to
Dorset County Domestic Violence Strategy Group | Poole and Bournemouth Domestic Violence Strategy Group
Make representations to the Home Office regarding the multiplicity of current procedures and processes for dealing with domestic violence and abuse across agencies and the need for these to be simplified and streamlined particularly the timescales for DHRs when criminal proceedings are underway.