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

Stoke-on-Trent review

CSP: Stoke-on-Trent Published: July 2023 Year of death: 2017 Extracted: 3 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

Health professionals missed opportunities to identify domestic abuse and make sensitive enquiries, despite the victim presenting with health markers. The report highlights a lack of routine questioning and recording, and a general difficulty in recognising coercive control, contributing to unaddressed risks, particularly post-separation.

Extracted recommendations

3 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	That Stoke-on-Trent CCG and North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust demonstrate that they have in place policies and procedures, best practice guidance and training that ensures that when people present to frontline staff with indicators of possible domestic abuse they are asked (and a record made of that enquiry) about their experiences in a sensitive and appropriate manner in a private discussion, in accordance with NICE Guidance 50 and Quality Standard 116.	Stoke-on-Trent CCG \| North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
2	That the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Domestic Abuse Commissioning and Development Board raise awareness of the significant adverse impact of coercive control in relationships so that not only victims are better able to recognise they are experiencing this form of domestic abuse and seek help and support, but also their community, family, friends and colleagues are equipped to identify safe and effective pathways to provide that support.	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Domestic Abuse Commissioning and Development Board
3	That the Stoke-on-Trent Community Safety Partnership propose to NHS England that they review their current on-line Safeguarding Level III training to ensure that it provides guidance to health professionals that enables them to identify indicators of possible domestic violence or abuse in patients and also lists questions that would prompt a discussion about their experiences.	Stoke-on-Trent Community Safety Partnership
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗