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.

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Rochdale review

CSP: Rochdale Published: July 2023 Year of death: 2017 Extracted: 12 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 identified concerns regarding police risk assessment and investigation of domestic abuse incidents, the housing provider's failure to follow domestic abuse policy, and a lack of awareness among the victim's family about how to seek support.

Extracted recommendations

12 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	The learning from this DHR repeats the learning identified in other recent DHRs in the Rochdale area. Rochdale Community Safety Partnership should recognise this and identify if the learning in this review can be used as evidence to support recommendations made in those other reviews particularly around raising the knowledge of family and friends, what to do when leaving an abusive relationship and raising awareness about controlling and coercive behaviour.	Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
1	Ensure GP awareness of the importance of timely referral to alcohol specialist services. To demonstrate and document professional curiosity.	Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Clinical Commissioning Group
10	Shorter times frames to be put into place regarding contact with DV victims	Victim Support
2	That Rochdale Community Safety Partnership recommend to the Home Office that there is a need to conduct national research that looks at the story of perpetrators of abuse and why they behaved in the way they did.	Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
2	Review the drafted National amendments to the Responsive Repairs Policy version 0.9 and seek to understand if this can be implemented. This policy states in section 5 “…..Where exceptional circumstances occur which pose an immediate health and safety risk we will aim to attend within four hours…”	The Guinness Partnership
3	Identify requirements, using the learning from this review, as part of the build for the new CRM case management system tool.	The Guinness Partnership
4	Construct a 7-minute brief on the lessons learnt from this review and include why. To be briefed to all relevant staff within 3 months of circulation.	The Guinness Partnership
5	Immediately update Domestic Violence Guidance to include Domestic Violence guidance and Disclosure Scheme (Clare’s Law); the ‘right to know’.	The Guinness Partnership
6	Rochdale Division to provide guidance to officers who triage PPIs to ensure that a full review of history is conducted and that a structured rationale for the risk assessment is placed on to the PPI. Consideration to be given with regards to role our across GMP.	Greater Manchester Police
7	GMP to review its guidance given to investigating officers in respect of Domestic Assaults where victims do not support a prosecution. This is with a view to prescribing what is expected from the investigating officer.	Greater Manchester Police
8	Better communications to be completed on VS case management system.	Victim Support
9	Improved knowledge on Domestic abuse training	Victim Support
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗