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.

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Summary

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.

Extracted recommendations

6 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	To work with communities leaders, community organisations and faith groups to challenge negative attitudes around power and control towards women and girls	Bristol Community Safety Partnership \| Bristol City Public Health
2	Broadening the VAAWG agenda to under-represented communities affected by DV and SV through a community empowerment approach.	Bristol City Council Public Health
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	Bristol City Council Public Health
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.	Bristol City Council Housing Estate Management Service
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	Bristol City Council Housing Estate Management Service \| Bristol City Council Rent Management Service
6	TB Clinic personnel to be reminded of safeguarding policy re vulnerable patients	University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Safeguarding
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗