Chorley and South Ribble review

Each agency involved in this particular case should take time to reflect on their involvement with the subjects of the case and develop any necessary action learning points in order to satisfy themselves that their procedures will become sufficiently robust to offer information about the role of the carer, to offer a carer assessment, to engage with other services to share information in order to co-ordinate the provision of carer services and to determine when and where to intervene if the carer happens to express concern and anxiety about their role as a carer.

Each Agency involved in this particular case should take time to reflect on their involvement with the subjects of the case and develop any necessary action learning points in order to satisfy themselves that their procedures will become sufficiently robust to respond to concerns expressed by children directly or by parents on behalf of their children. These procedures may centre upon knowing when to share this information and with which organisation to share it with so that support can be offered in a timely and age-appropriate fashion.

The pan-Lancashire DHR Task and Finish Group should consider the development of a model policy on Domestic Abuse and share this model with all participating agencies in this Review and invite them to consider adapting and then adopting the model Policy. Commissioning Organisations – who have service contracts with independent organisations – should consider the adoption of an effective policy on domestic abuse a formal condition of service. The Regional Manager for the Department for Work and Pension should be contacted and the outcome of this Review, along with its recommendations, should be shared with them.

Each Agency involved in this particular case should take time to reflect on their involvement in the DHR and develop any necessary action learning points in order to satisfy themselves that their procedures are sufficiently robust to manage the delivery of information to any future domestic homicide review. In co-operation with the Safer Chorley and South Ribble Community Safety Partnership, each agency involved in this DH Review will, where necessary, be invited to construct and implement a learning action plan resulting from their particular experience of this review. This plan should focus upon how the organisation will respond to a DHR in future and particularly: • who in their organisation can and should author Short Reports and/or IMR and who can and should quality assure these reports • How to respond in a full and constructive way to both the Terms of Reference and the Key Lines of Enquiry for DHRs. These elements of the DHR process are generally constructed in a standard format – though the precise wording may differ from Review to Review. The Safer Chorley and South Ribble Community Safety Partnership should monitor the delivery of this action.