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
Liverpool review
CSP: LiverpoolPublished: June 2023Year of death: 2014Extracted: 3 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review highlights concerns regarding agencies' ability to identify and manage the victim's significant vulnerabilities, particularly her susceptibility to abusive relationships, after her children were removed from her care. There were missed opportunities in risk assessment and follow-up on her support needs by social care and health services.
Home Office classifications
23 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - physical disability
Victim - pregnancy
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Children - removed into care
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - self harm
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
3 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Liverpool City Council Adults Services
There should be an internal management review of the risk assessment section of the FACS assessment carried out with the victim, in 2008. The review should consider the following questions: Was risk appropriately assessed, with reference to all of the information held by both Children’s Services and the Adult Social Care Learning Disability Team? If it was not appropriately assessed, what were the reasons for this and what lessons can be learned from this. Bearing in mind that this assessment was conducted some seven years ago, have there since been improvements in policy / procedure, and staff training. If this assessment was being carried out today, would it have more accurately identified risks the risks which were present? Taking account of the above points, what actions (if any) are required to improve practice in this area?
GPs should use the recognised pathways of referral into multi-disciplinary and multi-agency arenas if risks to individual safety cannot be managed in-house.