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: Cardiff Published: September 2023 Year of death: 2019 Extracted: 7 recs

Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.

View full report (PDF) ↗ Source: Home Office DHR Library

Summary

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.

Extracted recommendations

7 recommendations pulled from the report
# Recommendation Addressed to
17.1 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
17.2 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
17.3 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
17.4 Cardiff Community Safety Partnership and its partners to consider the need for face to face victim engagement when requiring translation services. Cardiff Community Safety Partnership | its partners
17.5 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. Cardiff Community Safety Partnership
17.6 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. Cardiff Community Safety Partnership
17.7 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. Cardiff Community Safety Partnership
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗