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.
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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
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.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 17.1 | Cleveland Police should provide assurance to Middlesbrough Community Safety Partnership with regard to contemporary crime recording and investigation practice. | Cleveland Police |
| 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. | Constituent agencies of Middlesbrough Community Safety Partnership |
| 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. | Middlesbrough Executive group | Community Safety Partnership |
| 17.4 | The learning from this review should be shared with the Children’s Social Care Improvement Board. | Children’s Social Care Improvement Board |
| 17.5 | The learning from this review should be shared with Teesside Children’s Safeguarding Partnership. | Teesside Children’s Safeguarding Partnership |
| 17.6 | Children’s Social Care learning and recommendations [paragraph 14.12.1] are remitted to the Children’s Social Care Improvement Board. | Children’s Social Care Improvement Board |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||