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
Croydon review
CSP: CroydonPublished: July 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 identifies concerns regarding the invisibility of fathers in family services, inadequate advice for young fathers, and communication gaps between agencies like police, children's social care, schools, and GPs in identifying and responding to domestic abuse risks.
Home Office classifications
22 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - known to others 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 - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - school recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
3 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Safer Croydon Partnership | Children’s Safeguarding Board
Consolidate work in relation to invisibility of fathers in the context of CSC and other frontline family services and audit progress to date in relation to this area of work to ensure both the Safer Croydon Partnership and the Children’s Safeguarding Board has adequate oversight on progress to date and further development required.
Consider if the public information provided in a wide range of services such as the CAB, Croydon Family Justice Centre, GP surgeries and general support and advice centres target a range of potential service users including men so that there is wider understanding to those seeking help and their social networks of the range of service provided locally.
Report on progress to date in relation to work in both schools and primary care which relate to recommendations and actions from prior reviews which are reflected and further understood in this review.