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
Solihull review
CSP: SolihullPublished: July 2023Year of death: 2013Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified inadequate police response to prior domestic abuse, a failure by practitioners to link alcohol misuse with domestic abuse risks, and missed opportunities in health settings to identify concerns. There was also a general lack of awareness among professionals and employers regarding domestic abuse indicators and support.
Home Office classifications
29 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - physical stalking
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
DHR process - health 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 - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
The Safer Solihull Partnership should ensure that all those working in the area of domestic abuse; have knowledge of the inter-linking between this and other forms of abuse: child protection, adult protection, alcohol abuse and safeguarding generally; to ensure that these risks are appropriately addressed.
The Safer Solihull Partnership should ensure that the recent developments described by a number of organisations in relation to domestic abuse have been implemented and are embedded within their structures; processes; and practice. (These developments can be found in section 5 of the Overview Report)
That the Safer Solihull Partnership should identify any opportunity that it, or its constituent members, have to increase the knowledge and understanding of employers of the issue of domestic abuse, and of their responsibilities in respect of staff who may be subject to this, to ensure that staff are better supported.
The Safer Solihull Partnership should to do all in its power to maintain and improve the services currently available to prevent, identify and respond to domestic abuse within the Borough.
In order to ensure that practice staff are consistent in applying the domestic abuse policies related to staff and patients the practice requires systems in place to monitor and review this
Addressed to
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Assessment, particularly in respect of alcohol consumption, needs to be improved. In order to achieve this a number actions need to be undertaken to ensure that the well-being of patients and their family members is safeguarded.