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
South Worcestershire review
CSP: South WorcestershirePublished: August 2023Year of death: 2014Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identifies concerns regarding the victim's disengagement with statutory health services for the perpetrator's medical and mental health needs, leading to missed intervention opportunities. It highlights limitations in agency powers for Elective Home Education, challenges with non-compliant families, and issues with robust follow-up for missed appointments and patient de-registration.
Home Office classifications
22 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - psychosis
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
5 recommendations pulled from the report · 3 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Safer Community Partnership | Department of Education
The Chair of the Safer Community Partnership writes to Minister for Education expressing continuing concerns that the guidance for Elective Home Education is not fit for purpose and requires an urgent review by the Department of Education to ensure that a more positive supervision and monitoring policy is introduced.
All agencies to ensure that all front line professionals are aware of the West Mercia Inter-Agency Child Protection Procedures especially the Chapter adopted in April 2014, ‘Working with Hostile .Non-Compliant Clients and those who use Disguised Compliance’.
Addressed to
Worcestershire Safeguarding Adult Board
Worcestershire Safeguarding Adult Board to consider formulating guidance similar to West Mercia Inter-Agency Child Protection Procedures ‘Working with Hostile, Non-Compliant Clients and those who use Disguised Compliance’ when works with adult children and their parents.
NHS England will alert GPs locally to ensure any non-attendance of appointments are robustly followed up through the organisations ‘Did Not Attend/Was not brought Policy ‘ . GPs should ensure their Practice has a documented process in place to liaise with HV/SN’s about transfers in or out of their Practice of children where there are safeguarding concerns.
NHS England will raise the issue of ‘de-registration’ at a national level as it pertains to the wider national patient records system with a recommendation to work towards an electronic solution of monitoring of de-registration.