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North Somerset review

CSP: North Somerset Published: September 2023 Year of death: 2011 Extracted: 14 recs

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

Original review (PDF) ↗ Source: Home Office DHR Library

Summary AI-generated

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This DHR highlights the hidden nature of domestic abuse, the victim's reluctance to seek formal help, and the perpetrator's limited disclosures to agencies. It identifies missed opportunities for intervention, particularly regarding information sharing and follow-up on early disclosures, and a general lack of awareness among friends and family.

Home Office classifications

24 tags

Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.

  • Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
  • Perpetrator - case heard in court
  • Perpetrator - issued life sentence
  • Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
  • Perpetrator - mental ill health
  • Perpetrator - depression
  • Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to workplace (employer) as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - immigration involvement
  • Aggravating factors - separation
  • Aggravating factors - physical abuse
  • DHR process - family contributed to dhr
  • DHR process - health services recommendations
  • DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
  • DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
  • DHR process - training recommendation themes
  • DHR process - policy recommendation themes
  • DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
  • DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
  • DHR process - other recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

14 recommendations pulled from the report · 8 matched to organisations in the index

Recommendation 1

Addressed to North Somerset People and Communities Board (Community Safety Partnership)

Continue to raise awareness and encourage reporting of domestic abuse and in particular promote domestic abuse campaigns directed at members of the public for third party disclosure.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation 2

Addressed to North Somerset People and Communities Board (Community Safety Partnership)

Focus on family and friends noticing signs of domestic abuse and reporting to relevant agencies (not necessarily the police)

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Recommendation 3

Addressed to North Somerset People and Communities Board (Community Safety Partnership)

Consider a wider range of methods to get domestic abuse messages across including radio/TV/public transport adverts; Facebook/Youtube/Twitter and a domestic abuse theme for the Google homepage

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation 4

Addressed to North Somerset People and Communities Board (Community Safety Partnership)

Address self-denial in professional people

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Recommendation 5

Addressed to North Somerset People and Communities Board (Community Safety Partnership)

Encourage employers to consider and engage in Domestic Abuse policies for their staff

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Recommendation 6

Addressed to North Somerset People and Communities Board (Community Safety Partnership)

DASH risk assessment – promote use of this by GPs and private counsellors to identify risk and consider use of it by family/ friends of people at risk

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Recommendation 7

Addressed to North Somerset CCG

Ensure GPs are required to receive training and regular updates on domestic abuse and to look for signs, risk assess and share information regarding domestic abuse

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Recommendation 8

Addressed to North Somerset CCG

Consider how to support GP practices in conducting IMRs following a Domestic Homicide

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Recommendation 9

Addressed to North Somerset CCG

Ensure that agencies who are contracted by the NHS have clear discharge summaries back to the referring GP

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Recommendation 10

Addressed to North Somerset CCG

Review current counselling contracts with the NHS and ensure that private counsellors are given a general issue duty of care for their clients

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Recommendation 13

Addressed to Home Office

Highlight procedure for the situation where one of the agencies is aware of information held by another agency which is not disclosed to the wider group – in particular in relation to patient confidentiality or private counselling confidentiality issues

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Recommendation 14

Addressed to Home Office

Consider introducing guidance on how small organisations and GP practices can conduct Independent Management Reviews in an independent and quality assured way

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