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
Salford review
CSP: SalfordPublished: September 2023Year of death: 2019Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
Agencies failed to identify the victim as a domestic abuse victim or the perpetrator as an abuser, despite indicators of conflict and abusive behaviour within the household. There were issues with multi-agency information sharing, coordination, and clarity of ongoing support after social care involvement.
Home Office classifications
30 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - physical disability
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
Addressed to
Constituent Agencies of Salford Community Safety Partnership | Salford Safeguarding Partnership
In order for strategy meetings to be consistently good, practice standards including appropriate management oversight of strategy meetings should be developed and implemented into multi-agency practice, utilising the support of Salford Safeguarding Partnership. Salford Community Safety Partnership should be assured by its constituent partners that the work has been completed and implemented.
Addressed to
Constituent Agencies of Salford Community Safety Partnership
Agencies should give assurance to Salford CSP that where workers are reliant on other agencies to provide support following their conclusion of a case, a full understanding of the other agencies’ involvement is documented and a SMART plan is developed.
Addressed to
Constituent Agencies of Salford Community Safety Partnership
Agencies should give assurance to Salford CSP that their workers have access to the Home Office information guide on Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (APVA) and that it is included within Domestic Abuse training.
Salford Community Safety Partnership should review the referral pathways and direct access by the public to programmes tackling Adolescent to Parent Violence and make them more accessible to other agencies and the public.
Salford Community Safety Partnership should receive an update on the Salford Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan 2020 – 2030 and assure itself that the actions intended to change attitudes and behaviours are robust and on track.
Salford Community Safety Partnership should receive assurance that the role and practice of routine/targeted enquiry is embedded within all domestic abuse training.