Recommendation 1
To work with communities leaders, community organisations and faith groups to challenge negative attitudes around power and control towards women and girls
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗
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
Bristol review
CSP: Bristol
Published: July 2023
Year of death: 2015
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 highlights challenges in identifying domestic abuse within newly arrived communities, cultural barriers to disclosure, and the need to challenge societal attitudes regarding gender roles and power dynamics. It notes that agencies had limited opportunities to intervene due to lack of disclosure.
Home Office classifications
31 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
- Victim - pregnancy
- Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
- Victim - immigration involvement
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
- 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 - mental ill health
- Perpetrator - self harm
- Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
- Perpetrator - suicide attempts
- Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - immigration involvement
- Aggravating factors - separation
- Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
- Aggravating factors - physical abuse
- DHR process - family contributed to dhr
- DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
- DHR process - family received draft report
- DHR process - health services recommendations
- DHR process - housing services recommendations
- DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
- DHR process - training recommendation themes
- DHR process - policy recommendation themes
- DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
- DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
Recommendation 2
Broadening the VAAWG agenda to under-represented communities affected by DV and SV through a community empowerment approach.
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗
Recommendation 3
The city-wide No Excuses campaign will be delivered in Bristol to raise awareness of domestic and sexual abuse and encourage friends and family members to report domestic abuse. This work will be in partnership with the PCC and Zero Tolerance City
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗
Recommendation 4
To deliver regular tenancy reviews to those tenants who are known to Housing to be or have been vulnerable in the past. e.g. domestic abuse reported or other breach noted.
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗
Recommendation 5
All staff will be reminded through management meetings and refresher training of the need to promptly refer vulnerable tenants to appropriate support agencies especially at the start of the tenancy highlighting the referral to furnished tenancy team
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗
Recommendation 6
TB Clinic personnel to be reminded of safeguarding policy re vulnerable patients
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗