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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Newham review

CSP: Newham Published: June 2023 Year of death: 2013 Extracted: 9 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 review identified systemic failures in police adherence to domestic abuse policies, intelligence sharing, and inter-agency communication. There were also missed opportunities by health and education services to identify and respond to domestic abuse, contributing to a lack of protection for the victim and her children.

Extracted recommendations

9 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	That all agencies report progress on their internal action plans to the relevant task and finish group of Newham CSP.	Newham Community Safety Partnership (CSP) agencies
2	That the London Borough of Newham and Newham CCG should ensure that all Schools, GPs, Sexual Health Services, gynaecology services and Pregnancy Advisory Services are routinely enquiring about domestic violence and sexual violence and are aware of clear pathways for referral to domestic abuse support services and MARAC. This should be monitored by regular audit and reporting performance on MARAC and Domestic and Sexual Violence referrals to the Domestic and Sexual Violence Board.	London Borough of Newham \| Newham CCG
3	That the London Borough of Newham, Newham CCG and Education provide publicity and information leaflets for public facing health services on domestic abuse. Priority should be given to encouraging family and friends to make third party referrals and to emphasising that no religion accepts domestic violence.	London Borough of Newham \| Newham CCG \| Education
4	That the London Borough of Newham and the MPS conduct a review of the MPS Sapphire Team involvement in the MARAC process.	London Borough of Newham \| Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
5	MPS Sapphire Team considers processes that will actively involve Borough Community Safety Teams in the investigation of serious sexual violence between intimate partners.	Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
6	That the MPS implement processes that will monitor, supervise and audit the quality of investigations of serious sexual violence offences between intimate partners. These processes should include a level of independence from the police service and a link to community based domestic abuse services.	Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
7	That the MPS implement training for all staff to ensure awareness and understanding of civil orders in domestic abuse cases and the police service role. A system should be developed to ensure that, when police become aware of a civil order, there is a process of receipt, a generation of a new specified investigation (treated like a new allegation/incident), an instigation of contact with a victim, and a referral to IDVA services locally, as well as consideration of a MARAC referral.	Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
8	That the Home Office work with the Ministry of Justice to implement a system whereby Non-Molestation Orders and Non-Occupancy Orders can be input directly to the Police National Computer.	Home Office \| Ministry of Justice
9	That Newham Children’s Social Care and Education Department conduct an audit on the compliance with policy of referrals between Education and CSC. The results of this audit should be reviewed and changes to policy and training implemented to complete the audit cycle, if required. Progress on this work will be reported to the Newham CSP and Safeguarding Board.	Newham Children’s Social Care \| Education Department
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗