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Source · Domestic Homicide Review
Wiltshire review
CSP: WiltshirePublished: February 2024Year of death: 2020Extracted: 5 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 a lack of coordinated, holistic multi-agency support for the victim's complex needs, including mental health, drug misuse, and domestic abuse. Deficiencies were noted in information sharing, risk assessment, safeguarding practices, and professional curiosity regarding domestic abuse.
Home Office classifications
24 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - physical disability
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - self harm
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to idva or other domestic abuse support service as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
Work should take place with the local agencies involved in this case to ensure improved understanding of the referral process for Adult Social Care. This means staff are clear on when and how to refer, and that any referrals they make are of a consistent high quality.
Addressed to
Avon and Wiltshire Partnership NHS Trust
Adult mental health services should examine their policies and processes to ensure that they offer adequate opportunities for family engagement in care planning and review of people with complex needs. Services should review current practice and consider what could be improved to address any barriers to involving families in support plans and reviews.
Addressed to
Wiltshire Safeguarding Vulnerable People Partnership
The use of the DASH risk assessment should be promoted as the primary tool for assessment of risk in relation to domestic abuse and seek assurance that it is being used appropriately and consistently across the partnership.
Agencies should examine current systems for the sharing of information between organisations (including cross boundary) relating to actual or suspected domestic abuse and identify any areas for improvement to ensure that risk to a potential domestic abuse victim can be adequately assessed.
Addressed to
Wiltshire Safeguarding Vulnerable People Partnership
The SVPP should promote the learning about the multi-faceted aspects of family members and carers supporting adults with complex needs and encourage all agencies to adopt a standard line of enquiry about identification of carers and provision of information about carer support services.