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
Tower Hamlets review
CSP: Tower HamletsPublished: September 2023Year of death: 2018Extracted: 9 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified concerns regarding inaccurate record-keeping and intelligence checks by police, and inadequate safeguarding responses and referrals by schools. It also highlighted missed opportunities by housing providers to identify financial abuse and a general lack of professional curiosity and whole-family assessment across agencies.
Home Office classifications
36 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
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 - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
Perpetrator - post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - housing services recommendations
DHR process - school 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
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
9 recommendations pulled from the report · 3 matched to organisations in the index
That Central East BCU Senior Leadership Team (SLT) remind officers of the importance of accuracy when recording and inputting information to MPS computer systems in compliance with MPS data accuracy standards and the Data Protection Act 2018
Addressed to
LB Tower Hamlets Education Safeguarding Service
Safeguarding Training for all staff in the school offered by the LA Education Safeguarding Service, this training will encompass the local protocol and local arrangements for dealing with child safeguarding issues
Addressed to
Registered Providers of Social Housing
Registered Providers of Social Housing should consider the ‘Whole Housing Toolkit’ and Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) accreditation to improve their responses to victims of domestic abuse, in particular to highlight possible indicators of financial/domestic abuse and improve awareness of the support available
That CPIC review the CRIS Policy and include guidance in relation to recording Court results, Sentences and Orders for domestic violence offences onto the MPS CRIS system ‘Accused Page’
That Central East BCU SLT should remind officers to complete the required 5 year intelligence checks for Domestic Abuse incidents. This should include mandatory searches of databases including PNC, CRIS, Merlin and CRIMINT ensuring that the intelligence check results are recorded on the CRIS report. Compliance should be monitored by dip sampling DA flagged CRIS reports