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

Cornwall review

CSP: Cornwall Published: November 2023 Year of death: 2020 Extracted: 12 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 identifies missed opportunities for agency intervention, particularly regarding interpreter services and follow-up for victims from diverse communities. It highlights the impact of coercive control, financial abuse, and alcohol misuse, alongside issues with routine enquiry and MARAC processes.

Extracted recommendations

12 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	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 Cornwall \| Kernow Clinical Commissioning
10	RCHT to review the effectiveness of the MARAC flagging process and where appropriate implement identified changes.	RCHT
11	Safer Futures to review current processes to ensure that staff make contact with specialist support services on behalf of clients.	Safer Futures
12	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.	Safer Cornwall \| Multi-Agency, Equality, diversity and Hate crime Group
2	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
3	Safer Futures and DASV commissioners to review current referral pathways and identify opportunities for improving services for individuals engaged in abusive behaviour.	Safer Futures \| DASV commissioners
4	Safer Futures to review and amend current recording practices to ensure that nationalities are accurately recorded for all cases.	Safer Futures
5	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.	Safer Cornwall Partnership \| Health providers \| Safer Futures \| Housing \| Adult Social Care
6	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.	Devon and Cornwall Police
7	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 \| Health providers \| Safer Futures \| Housing \| Adult Social Care
8	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 \| Health providers \| Safer Futures \| Housing \| Adult Social Care
9	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.	Safer Cornwall Partnership \| local specialist service providers
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗