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: July 2023Year of death: 2018Extracted: 4 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
Health agencies failed to routinely identify domestic abuse, particularly coercive control, and address the victim's complex needs (mental health, substance misuse) holistically. There was a lack of integrated working and underestimation of risk from the perpetrator.
Home Office classifications
31 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - self harm
Victim - suicidal thoughts
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
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 friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
4 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group | University Hospitals Birmingham | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Relevant agencies listed should provide assurance to the Safer Solihull Partnership that they have in place local arrangements to ensure that their professionals ‘ask the question’ of people presenting with the health indicators of domestic abuse (in line with NICE Guidance and Quality Standards) together with suitable audit tools or measurements to demonstrate a change in outcomes.
The Safer Solihull Partnership seeks assurance from the Commissioners of the IRIS project within GP surgeries that funding will be given due consideration beyond the current agreed period and that in order to embed this service, it will be brought into mainstream funding in the future.
The Safer Solihull Partnership would propose to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner that any Action Plan to address domestic abuse recognises that lasting and permanent change cannot be achieved without a sustained and concerted approach to address behaviour change and cultural norms.
This Domestic Homicide Review noted the effectiveness of hospital-based IDVAs in supporting women with complex needs experiencing domestic abuse. The Safer Solihull Partnership would seek assurances from the commissioners of these services that they will be recommissioned in hospitals in Solihull.