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
Cardiff review
CSP: CardiffPublished: September 2023Year of death: 2019Extracted: 7 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The report identifies concerns regarding agencies' failure to link historic domestic abuse records, barriers to disclosure for victims from minoritised communities due to cultural factors and immigration status, and the use of family members as interpreters. It also highlights missed opportunities for intervention and a need to improve community awareness and support for young people outside the school system.
Home Office classifications
22 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - immigration involvement
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)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Children - removed into care
Child - primary address same as victim
Child - immigration involvement
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - immigration involvement
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Cardiff Community Safety Partnership should receive assurance from all agencies that the learning in relation to use and recording of different names in this review has been disseminated to and understood by staff.
Cardiff Community Safety Partnership should review and if necessary, enhance the information and support available to its diverse communities to promote healthy relationships and deny abusers the cover of cultural acceptance.
Cardiff Community Safety Partnership should receive assurance from all agencies that family members are not used as interpreters as this prevents the disclosure of domestic abuse.
Cardiff Community Safety Partnership should review the effectiveness and if necessary, strengthen the information provided to family, friends, neighbours and diverse communities about recognising the signs of domestic abuse and where they can go, if necessary anonymously, with such information.
That Cardiff Community Safety Partnership ensures that the Regional VAWDASV Strategy details how it will respond to the cultural acceptance of domestic abuse and improve the confidence of victims and witnesses to report abuse.
The Community Safety Partnership should review how children and young people from minoritised communities are informed about where they can seek support, particularly if they are not in the school system.