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
Rochdale review
CSP: RochdalePublished: August 2023Extracted: 7 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The DHR identifies systemic failures by agencies to recognise and respond to escalating domestic abuse indicators, particularly concerning risk assessment, inter-agency information sharing, and prioritising the perpetrator's mental health needs over the victim's safety, despite clear warning signs.
Home Office classifications
34 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - physical disability
Victim - pregnancy
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - psychosis
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - supervised by mental health services
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
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 - police 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 - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
7 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership monitor the implementation of the participating agencies recommendations to ensure they are delivered and that agencies report on the progress they have made towards delivery.
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership develop a ‘seven-minute briefing’ that incorporates the learning from this review which should be shared with professionals from all partner agencies and incorporated within their training plans and processes.
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership seeks assurances that the MASH, MARAC and associated processes have access to mental health information and/or mental health professionals are represented at these meetings.
Rochdale Borough Council ensures that guidance to teachers and associate staff in school Staff Induction Statements includes reference to domestic abuse.
Rochdale Borough Council reviews its Health, Well Being, Work Life Balance and Stress Management Guidance to ensure it includes information about support which might be afforded to those staff suffering difficulty outside the workplace specifically domestic abuse.
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
That Rochdale Community Safety Partnership emphasises to all its constituent agencies that unborn children should be considered from a safeguarding perspective and seeks assurances that the issue is covered in their safeguarding training.
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
That Rochdale Community Safety Partnership considers running an awareness campaign to educate the public, particularly friends and families of victims, so they understand how to respond to domestic abuse.