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
Chorley and South Ribble review
CSP: Chorley and South Ribble
Published: August 2023
Year of death: 2013
Extracted: 4 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 found the homicide was unpredictable and unpreventable, with limited prior agency contact. However, it identified learning points regarding the need for agencies to improve support for carers and wider family, ensure up-to-date domestic abuse policies, and enhance information quality for future reviews.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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. | Each Agency involved in this particular case |
| 3 | 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. | pan-Lancashire DHR Task and Finish Group | all participating agencies in this Review | Commissioning Organisations | Department for Work and Pension |
| 4 | 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. | Each Agency involved in this particular case | Safer Chorley and South Ribble Community Safety Partnership |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||