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
Waverley review
CSP: WaverleyPublished: August 2023Year of death: 2019Extracted: 7 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 concerns regarding the lack of mandatory health professional involvement in firearms licensing, the need for improved routine enquiry and training on elder abuse, and ensuring hospital discharge processes address care responsibilities for dependants, particularly when the perpetrator's health deteriorates and they are a carer.
Home Office classifications
22 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - cognitive disorder (dementia or alzheimer's disease)
Victim - depression
Perpetrator - was a carer
Perpetrator - carer for victim
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - died by suicide
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - family attended dhr panel
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - social services recommendations
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 - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
7 recommendations pulled from the report · 5 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
All Surrey Clinical Commissioning Groups | All Surrey Health Services
All Surrey Clinical Commissioning Groups and all Surrey Health Services assure the Safer Waverley Partnership, that Routine Enquiries into possible domestic abuse is embedded into training, policies and procedures.
Addressed to
Surrey County Council Adult Social Services | All Surrey Clinical Commissioning Groups | All Surrey Health Services | Domestic Abuse Outreach Services | Surrey Police
Surrey County Council Adult Social Services together with all Surrey Clinical Commissioning Groups and all Surrey Health Services, Domestic Abuse Outreach Services and Surrey Police, embark on a publicity campaign advertising with posters and seminars etc., the opportunities for older victims of domestic abuse, their friends and family members in Surrey to locate help, support and advice about domestic abuse.
Addressed to
Surrey County Council Adult Social Services | All Surrey Clinical Commissioning Groups | All Surrey Health Services
Surrey County Council Adult Social Services, together with all Surrey Clinical Commissioning Groups and all Surrey Health Services review domestic abuse training to ensure that professionals have the skills and knowledge to respond to abuse of the elderly confidently and professionally.
Addressed to
Safer Waverley Partnership | Home Office
The Safer Waverley Partnership endorses and supports the recommendation suggested in the draft guidance “Firearms Licensing Statutory Guidance For Chief Officers of Police”, and recommends that the circumstances of this review are shared with those within the Home Office responsible for the consultation, to assist in the continuance with those consultations with other professional bodies and to reach a positive conclusion as soon as possible.
The CCG and NHS Trust must ensure that practitioners make enquiries with patients, particularly those who are admitted to hospital, as to their home circumstances to establish if they have responsibility to care for another who is at home and who may be at risk due to the patients admission.