Ealing review

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.

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.

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.

All staff at LNWHT are trained to use the new assessment tool for domestic abuse.

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.

LNWHT should be assured around school nurses and health visiting record keeping skills.

LNWHT should ensure safeguarding children level 3 training is inclusive of domestic abuse and recommendations from this DHR.

LNWHT should review internal processes for creating alerts on electronic records in relation to domestic abuse.

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.

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.

The Community Safety Partnership undertake audits and quality assurance measures to ascertain if recommendations from this DHR have been embedded in practice.

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.