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
Birmingham review
CSP: Birmingham
Published: July 2023
Year of death: 2017
Extracted: 3 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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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The review highlights challenges in identifying coercive control within relationships, particularly in therapeutic settings, and the importance of the workplace as a potential source of support. It also identifies a need for more systematic and evidence-based public awareness campaigns regarding domestic abuse.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham Community Safety Partnership should seek assurance from its partner agencies, in keeping with West Midlands Domestic Violence and Abuse Standards, that they do not engage in, or commission, unsafe work with couples where there is domestic abuse. This requires agencies having robust mechanisms for screening and identifying domestic abuse, enabling safe disclosure and finding safe ways to work with the individuals concerned. Relate Federation to ensure that new procedures require direct questions about domestic abuse to be asked routinely as part of all individual sessions. Home Office to consider the development of guidance for multi-agency practitioners on safe practice in work with couples where there is domestic abuse (as recommended by the Home Office Quality Assurance Panel) | Birmingham Community Safety Partnership | Relate Federation | Home Office |
| 2 | Birmingham Community Safety Partnership should set the standard and ensure that all agencies in the city have up-to-date, robust workplace domestic abuse policies that enable employers and colleagues to both support victims and deal with perpetrators of domestic abuse in their workforce. The Home Office should provide guidance for employers on workplace domestic abuse policies that enable employers and colleagues to both support victims and deal with perpetrators of domestic abuse in their workforce (as recommended by the Home Office Quality Assurance Panel). | Birmingham Community Safety Partnership | Home Office |
| 3 | Birmingham Community Safety Partnership defines the extent of the activities needed in the City to effectively change attitudes to violence against women and girls and the extent to which the Partnership is able to deliver them. | Birmingham Community Safety Partnership |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||