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

Ealing review

CSP: Ealing Published: July 2023 Year of death: 2013 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 identifies an escalation of domestic abuse, the victim's fear of statutory intervention hindering disclosure, and a lack of coordinated multi-agency information sharing and response. Professionals missed opportunities to identify and support the victim due to insufficient understanding of domestic abuse dynamics and care pathways.

Extracted recommendations

12 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	The Community Safety Partnership via the VAWG Strategic Group launch publicity and awareness-raising for family, friends and victims or make use of national campaigns and efforts to raise awareness in the community. • Providing information about where victims, family and friends can go for advice and to talk about their options and • Address the role of Children’s Social Care to support non-abusing parents.	Community Safety Partnership
10	The LSCB to ensure that training be delivered for school safeguarding leads and includes equipping schools with the knowledge/skills to understand the risks associated with domestic abuse contained in the CAADA Dash and Barnardo’s DV Tools. This may be part of the LSCB training programme but it should be documented that all school Safeguarding leads have undertaken the LSCB module on domestic abuse.	LSCB
11	The Community Safety Partnership undertake audits and quality assurance measures to ascertain if recommendations from this DHR have been embedded in practice.	Community Safety Partnership
12	Ealing Council Children’s Social Care produce good practice in domestic abuse guidance for social care staff. Development of training for social work managers on risk management and decision making in domestic abuse cases.	Ealing Council Children’s Social Care
2	The Community Safety Partnership via the VAWG Strategic Group provide guidance and support for employers and unions to develop employment policies that address domestic abuse, ensuring that employees are asked about domestic abuse and supported to address this before instigating disciplinary actions.	Community Safety Partnership
3	LNWHT should be assured professionals are undertaking a new birth visit and asking routine and follow-up questions around domestic abuse with evidence of risk assessment and any required support details.	London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
4	All staff at LNWHT are trained to use the new assessment tool for domestic abuse.	London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
5	LNWHT should ensure their DV policy is in line with NICE guidance and refers to creating an environment for disclosing DV and abuse. Consider IDVA for acute settings.	London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
6	LNWHT should be assured around school nurses and health visiting record keeping skills.	London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
7	LNWHT should ensure safeguarding children level 3 training is inclusive of domestic abuse and recommendations from this DHR.	London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
8	LNWHT should review internal processes for creating alerts on electronic records in relation to domestic abuse.	London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
9	The Community Safety Partnership via the VAWG Strategic Group to provide support for safeguarding leads within Ealing schools on the Department for Education and Pan-London child protection referral procedures and best practice related to domestic abuse.	Community Safety Partnership
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗