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.

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Tower Hamlets review

CSP: Tower Hamlets Published: September 2023 Year of death: 2018 Extracted: 9 recs

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

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Summary

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.

Extracted recommendations

9 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	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	Metropolitan Police Service
1	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	LB Tower Hamlets Education Safeguarding Service
1	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	Registered Providers of Social Housing
2	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’	Metropolitan Police Service
2	Continue to update Advance Child Protection and Safeguarding Training for the Designated Safeguarding Leads in the school	LB Tower Hamlets Education Safeguarding Service
2	Commission an audit of Free Schools in LB Tower Hamlets to ensure standards are being met for accurate recording, CSC referral and staff training	LB Tower Hamlets Education Safeguarding Service
3	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	Metropolitan Police Service
3	Key staff members in the school to receive training on undertaking Early Help Assessments.	LB Tower Hamlets Education Safeguarding Service
3	Revise LB Tower Hamlets policy on its response to instances of ‘absent parent’ resulting in a whole family assessment.	LB Tower Hamlets Children's Social Care
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗