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

Kent review

CSP: Kent Published: July 2023 Year of death: 2018 Extracted: 11 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

Agencies lacked trauma-informed practice, understanding of coercive control, and effective multi-agency collaboration in responding to the victim's complex needs, including mental health and substance misuse, exacerbated by childhood trauma and ongoing abuse.

Extracted recommendations

11 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	The panel support recommendations emerging from other Kent Reviews which pertain to the evaluation of MARAC purpose and processes.	Kent -
10	All agencies and commissioned services to have provision for a trauma informed training offer, which is accessible to all staff, and includes practices for their specific client group.	Kent Police \| Education \| K&M ICB \| KMPT \| Council A \| Council B \| KCC ICS \| CENTRA \| Rising Sun
11	For agencies to have a lead person/or team, with knowledge of trauma informed practices.	Kent Police \| Education \| K&M ICB \| KMPT \| Council A \| Council B \| KCC ICS \| CENTRA \| Rising Sun
2	Development of a secure professionals’ virtual networking “Domestic Abuse Hub” within the Kent and Medway Domestic Abuse Website – to aid sharing of knowledge and referral pathways.	Kent CSP
3	HIDVA service to be expanded to all Acute Trusts across Kent and Medway.	Kent & Medway CCG
4	Domestic abuse training to include the effects of coercive control on victims.	KMSAB and KCC Learning and Development.
5	A multi-agency learning event focusing on trauma informed practice, which raises awareness about responding to victims in a trauma informed way.	KCC Public Health
6	Suicide prevention team to link in with (AAFDA) to join the conversation regarding unexplained deaths.	KCC Suicide prevention team
7	Social landlords to include a section in their mutual exchange forms addressing the reason for a mutual exchange – if this reason is due to domestic abuse landlords should follow their safeguarding procedures.	Kent Housing Group
8	Investigate the possibility of a central repository for unexplained deaths linked to domestic abuse.	Home Office
9	All agencies and commissioned services, to adopt trauma informed approaches and/or discussions within their staff supervision.	Kent Police \| Education \| K&M ICB \| KMPT \| Council A \| Council B \| KCC ICS \| CENTRA \| Rising Sun
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗