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.

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Rochdale review

CSP: Rochdale Published: June 2023 Extracted: 7 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 concerns regarding the understatement of risk due to incomplete perpetrator history research and inter-agency information sharing, leading to inadequate risk management. It also identifies a need to understand intergenerational patterns of violence.

Extracted recommendations

7 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	That the Head of the Public Protection Division provides guidance to practitioners and supervisors around the DASH risk assessment process to ensure that full consideration is being given to the ‘perpetrator’ and the threat / risk they pose. Research should look beyond PPI history and include an assessment of the perpetrator’s behaviour, motivation and offending history, to inform risk and to consider the capability and intent of the perpetrator.	Greater Manchester Police
2	That the Head of the Public Protection Division reviews current policy around the requirement to complete PND checks as part of the DASH risk assessment. Consideration should be given to when it is appropriate to complete PND checks and whether this should extend to standard and medium risk classifications.	Greater Manchester Police
3	That the Threats to Life Champion considers the provision of guidance / training to first response constables and their supervisors to provide an awareness of the National Threats to Life Guidelines, and the principles to be followed in cases where there is a real and immediate threat to loss of life or to cause serious harm or injury to another.	Greater Manchester Police
i	Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership request Greater Manchester Police provide reports to them on progress with the implementation of the single agency recommendations within this review;	Greater Manchester Police
ii	That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership use this case as a learning opportunity so that professionals understand the importance of correctly assessing and documenting risk and of researching a perpetrator’s offending history.	Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
iii	The Home Office commission national research to identify what makes people like the perpetrator behave in the violent and aggressive way they do and then to commit homicides. This research should attempt to identify what works to prevent people behaving in this manner.	Home Office
iv	That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership reinforce to all agencies the importance of early identification of families as ‘troubled’ and the mechanisms for referring concerns and sharing information.	Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗