Cornwall review

Safer Cornwall and Kernow Clinical Commissioning to work together to improve the responses of General Practices to domestic abuse through training, the establishment of care pathways, and an increase in GP referrals to specialist services and the MARAC.

Safer Futures to audit and review current recording practices to ensure that the decisions to close cases are defensible and that MARAC actions are finalised effectively and the rationale recorded.

Safer Futures and DASV commissioners to review current referral pathways and identify opportunities for improving services for individuals engaged in abusive behaviour.

Safer Futures to review and amend current recording practices to ensure that nationalities are accurately recorded for all cases.

Safer Cornwall Partnership to work with Health providers, Safer Futures, Housing and Adult Social Care to review and implement changes to improve local interpreter services in the County.

Devon and Cornwall Police to review current commissioning arrangements for interpreters and conduct an audit of domestic abuse cases that required an interpreter in terms of impact upon the outcomes for victims.

Safer Cornwall Partnership to work with Health providers, Safer Futures, Housing and Adult Social Care to review viability of training for local interpreters in domestic abuse.

Safer Cornwall Partnership to work with Health providers, Safer Futures, Housing and Adult Social Care to review and improve local domestic abuse literature for appropriate foreign national groups based on the demographics in the community.

Safer Cornwall Partnership, working with local specialist service providers who have experience of supporting Eastern European women experiencing domestic violence/abuse, to identify the most effective way to increase awareness of domestic abuse, and support services, within that community and to develop an action plan to implement this.

RCHT to review the effectiveness of the MARAC flagging process and where appropriate implement identified changes.

Safer Futures to review current processes to ensure that staff make contact with specialist support services on behalf of clients.

Safer Cornwall should work with the Multi-Agency, Equality, diversity and Hate crime Group to identify and implement opportunities to improve domestic abuse services , align strategies and improve the training of frontline staff in the County.