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
Manchester review
CSP: ManchesterPublished: July 2023Year of death: 2013Extracted: 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 identified concerns regarding the absence of formal carer assessments for the victim and perpetrator, and inconsistent information sharing about the perpetrator's mental health history across health services. It also highlighted missed opportunities to link the perpetrator's deteriorating health and caring stress with his past mental illness, and the need for improved training on domestic violence and elder abuse.
Home Office classifications
23 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - panic attacks
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - was a carer
Perpetrator - carer for victim
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - panic attacks
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - died by suicide
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
3 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | Local Adult Safeguarding Board
The CSP should work with the Local Adult Safeguarding Board to strengthen the response to the statutory guidance in relation to providing carers assessments. This should ensure that all agencies comply with statutory guidance in relation to the conduct of carers assessment. Furthermore, a specific question should be included in carers assessments that relates to pressures upon carers that may result in them harming the person for whom they are providing care.
The Adult Safeguarding Board should develop a specific policy in relation to elder abuse. This should be encompassed within the local domestic abuse strategy. The Adult Safeguarding Board should consult with agencies who have specific experience and knowledge in addressing the needs of older people such as Age Concern/Age UK and with specialist domestic abuse agencies.
The CCG should work closely with the CSP and other relevant commissioning and provider agencies to ensure that GPs have improved access to domestic violence and abuse training, such as the IRIS programme, and that this continues to be rolled out to all GPs in Manchester.