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
Stoke-on-Trent review
CSP: Stoke-on-Trent
Published: August 2023
Year of death: 2014
Extracted: 12 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 identified missed opportunities for professionals to exercise greater curiosity regarding the perpetrator's activities and presentation, and a lack of proactive management of some identified risk factors. The perpetrator concealed his relationship with the victim.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 16.1 | That Staffordshire Police and the National Probation Service consider how the professional curiosity of staff supervising offenders might be enhanced, including in conjunction with the use of the Active Risk Management System (ARMS). | Staffordshire Police | National Probation Service |
| D1.1 | Review the Offender Manager’s caseload to ensure that his OASys are up to date for all of offenders he is offender managing. | National Probation Service |
| D1.2 | Review back-up systems for tracking OASys completions within the Offender Manager’s office. This system is designed to provide a back-up to Offender Managers to ensure that all risk assessments are up to date. | National Probation Service |
| D1.3 | Work to address alcohol use should be undertaken with all offenders where it is identified as linked to risk, even if there is no evidence of current use. This should help relapse prevention in the future. | National Probation Service |
| D2.1 | For Staffordshire Police to review the structure and the staffing of the Violent and Sex Offender Management (VSOM) team. | Staffordshire Police |
| D2.2 | For Staffordshire Police to review the introduction and effectiveness of the ARMS risk management tool. | Staffordshire Police |
| D2.3 | For Staffordshire Police to review and ensure that all risk management plans for Registered Sex Offenders are SMART. | Staffordshire Police |
| D2.4 | For Staffordshire Police to adopt best practice concerning the removal of headgear when taking identification photographs of ViSOR subjects. | Staffordshire Police |
| D2.5 | For Staffordshire Police to ensure that all the relevant staff within the VSOM team are trained in ARMS. | Staffordshire Police |
| D2.6 | For Risk Assessors to ensure that all the relevant fields within each ViSOR record are fully complete. | Staffordshire Police |
| D2.7 | For the Senior Management Team within Public Protection to consider ways to raise the profile of the VSOM team and develop better organisational understanding of the work that they do. | Staffordshire Police |
| D2.8 | For Staffordshire Police to implement any recommendations that are made following the completion of the research commissioned by DCC Skeer. | Staffordshire Police |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||