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
Solihull review
CSP: SolihullPublished: June 2023Year of death: 2015Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified a lack of comprehensive risk assessment and poor multi-agency information sharing regarding the perpetrator's escalating violent behaviour. Interventions were often insular, focusing on containment rather than addressing root causes or escalating concerns to appropriate specialist services.
Home Office classifications
29 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - psychosis
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 others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - supervised by mental health services
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
5 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
The Home Office issue guidance to schools (Academies, Free Schools or Independent Schools) not under the governance of a Local Authority in respect of participation and release of information for the purpose of Domestic Homicide Reviews.
Safer Solihull Partnership to oversee the implementation of the generic Information Sharing Agreement and to ensure that agencies accept responsibility to agree and ensure that staff are trained to fully understand the importance of when, why and how to make and respond to information exchange between agencies.
Addressed to
Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group
General Medical Practitioners to be reminded of the limitations of the service provided by Healthy Minds which is a primary health service and further training to be provided in respect of Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IPT)
Safer Solihull to seek assurance and evidence from agencies involved with the Youth Offending and Prevention Service, School Panels, The Local Safeguarding Board Threshold Guidance and Schools Behaviour and Discipline Policy, that these developments are regularly monitored, assessed and amended to ensure effective and improved multi agency service delivery.
Solihull Safer Partnership to ensure that the lessons learnt during this review and previous learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews locally, regionally and nationally be disseminated to all agencies, managers and practitioners by way of learning events to be held across the Borough.