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: Dorset
Published: June 2023
Year of death: 2011
Extracted: 4 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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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
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.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 9.2 | 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 . | Dorset County Domestic Violence Strategy Group | Poole and Bournemouth Domestic Violence Strategy Group |
| 9.3 | 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. | Dorset County Domestic Violence Strategy Group | Poole and Bournemouth Domestic Violence Strategy Group | Police | Probation services |
| 9.4 | 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. | Police | Probation services |
| 9.5 | 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. | Dorset County Domestic Violence Strategy Group | Poole and Bournemouth Domestic Violence Strategy Group |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||