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
Sefton review
CSP: SeftonPublished: August 2023Year of death: 2012Extracted: 2 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 victim disclosure of domestic abuse to professionals and the need for improved professional understanding of disclosure barriers and risk factors, particularly around separation. It also identifies a gap in independent advice for friends and family receiving disclosures.
Home Office classifications
22 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
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 - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - self harm
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
That Sefton Community Safety Partnership raises the awareness of domestic violence in the community. The advice should include how family and friends should respond to disclosures of domestic violence.
That Sefton Community Safety Partnership ensures that professionals in its constituent agencies understand the barriers to disclosure faced by victims of domestic abuse and develop plans to overcome them. This could include the routine use of domestic abuse screening tools and asking direct questions.