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

East and Mid Devon review

CSP: East and Mid Devon Published: July 2023 Year of death: 2012 Extracted: 10 recs

Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.

Original review (PDF) ↗ Source: Home Office DHR Library

Summary AI-generated

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The report identifies agency errors in responding to the perpetrator's prior domestic abuse, including inappropriate cautioning and inadequate social work assessments. It highlights issues with inter-agency information sharing, risk assessment, and the need for better support and awareness for parents of adult substance misusers and abusers.

Home Office classifications

29 tags

Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.

Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to social services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to idva or other domestic abuse support service as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to school as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

10 recommendations pulled from the report · 10 matched to organisations in the index

Recommendation R1

Addressed to Devon & Cornwall Police

Ensure that the use of cautioning across the Force in domestic abuse cases is in line with national guidance and local benchmarks.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R2

Addressed to Devon County Council

Ensure that social workers retrieve paper based records, where available, as well as electronic records of historic contact with families when assessing current cases.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R3

Addressed to Devon County Council

Ensure social workers assessing the risk to children understand the impact of domestic abuse, recognising the harm to children from witnessing it and the heightened risk after the perpetrator has left the family home.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗