Recommendation 17.1
Cleveland Police should provide assurance to Middlesbrough Community Safety Partnership with regard to contemporary crime recording and investigation practice.
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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
Middlesbrough review
CSP: Middlesbrough
Published: July 2023
Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
Original review (PDF) ↗
Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary AI-generated
The review identifies systemic failures in multi-agency responses to domestic abuse, including inadequate crime recording by police, insufficient professional curiosity and comprehensive assessment by Children's Social Care, and a lack of coordinated trauma-informed practice. It highlights how these issues impacted the victim and her mother, who were subjected to the perpetrator's coercive control.
Home Office classifications
21 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
- Victim - alcohol misuse
- Victim - referred to marac at any time
- Children - living with victim (including adult children)
- Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
- Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
- Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
- Children - removed into care
- Perpetrator - case heard in court
- Perpetrator - mental ill health
- 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 supported by expert specialist advocate
- DHR process - family received draft report
- DHR process - police recommendations
- DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
- DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
- DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
- DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
Recommendation 17.2
Constituent agencies of Middlesbrough Community Safety Partnership should provide information and assurance in relation to their contemporary practice of recording of family background and circumstances.
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Recommendation 17.2
Paragraph 14.7.13 outlines that a report has been submitted to the Middlesbrough Executive group to consider new models of transition from children’s to adult services. The progress of their considerations should be reported to the Community Safety Partnership so that assurance can be given that the proposed model addresses the issues raised in this DHR.
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Recommendation 17.4
The learning from this review should be shared with the Children’s Social Care Improvement Board.
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Recommendation 17.5
The learning from this review should be shared with Teesside Children’s Safeguarding Partnership.
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Recommendation 17.6
Children’s Social Care learning and recommendations [paragraph 14.12.1] are remitted to the Children’s Social Care Improvement Board.
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