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: BirminghamPublished: July 2023Year of death: 2017Extracted: 3 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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.
Home Office classifications
19 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Perpetrator - died by suicide
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - digital stalking
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - family attended dhr panel
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - employer recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
3 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Birmingham Community Safety Partnership | Relate Federation | Home Office
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)
Addressed to
Birmingham Community Safety Partnership | Home Office
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).
Addressed to
Birmingham Community Safety Partnership
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.