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
Liverpool review
CSP: Liverpool
Published: September 2023
Year of death: 2017
Extracted: 6 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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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The report identifies systemic failures in identifying long-term domestic abuse, gross neglect, and isolation of the victim, exacerbated by hoarding and missed opportunities by agencies to intervene and provide support.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | To Increase the awareness of self-neglect in primary care. | General Practitioner |
| 2 | To increase the awareness of support for people who hoard. | General Practitioner |
| 3 | That Citysafe [Liverpool’s Community Safety Partnership] explore whether it would be practicable to develop a risk factor approach to identify previously unknown victims of domestic abuse who live fairly isolated lives. | Citysafe [Liverpool’s Community Safety Partnership] |
| 4 | That Citysafe, ensures that its, and all agencies domestic abuse training, covers the doubling of risk of domestic abuse faced by females who have long term disabilities or illnesses. | Citysafe |
| 5 | That Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group reinforce with GPs the need for them to consider the impact of a person being cared for, when the carer discloses difficulties in coping, and whether the circumstances require a referral to adult social care to ensure the person being cared for is safe. | Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group |
| 6 | That Citysafe explore with the Department for Work and Pensions, Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group and Liverpool Adult Social Care the feasibility and circumstances of when the Department for Work and Pensions could make referrals to those organisations for people in receipt of carer’s allowance. | Citysafe | Department for Work and Pensions | Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group | Liverpool Adult Social Care |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||