Nottingham review

Nottingham Crime and Drugs partnership should liaise with the Safeguarding Adults Board and Children Safeguarding Partnership Board, to ensure that the policy and training about professional curiosity are consistent across all partnership agencies.

Nottingham Crime and Drug partnership should work with the Police and the commissioned training provider (Equation) to ensure that training on Monckton Smith’s 8-Stage Model is made available to partner agencies. The purpose of this is to support professional curiosity as part of the investigation and risk assessment in cases of adult and child abuse as well as domestic abuse.

Supervisors and first-line managers of services and agencies who contributed to this Domestic Homicide Review, where there is direct contact with service users should be asked to provide evidence to the Nottingham Crime and Drug Partnership Domestic Homicide Review Assurance, Learning and Implementation Group (DHR ALIG) that supervision is used to discuss and reflect on the quality and outcome of risk assessments.

Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership should use commissioning processes to review how the training provider (Equation) works with businesses and commercial organisations in partnership with the Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID) to raise awareness about indicators of domestic abuse and mental health.

The Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership should collaborate with partners including the Business Improvement District and the Police and Crime Commissioner to look at innovative ways to raise awareness of businesses and workers in the night-time economy (NTE) of the signs and indicators of domestic abuse.

The Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership should collaborate with the Police, Children’s Social Care and other agencies to ensure that victims of abuse, particularly child victims of abuse are offered pre-trial therapy. The Partnership should seek assurance that pre-trial therapy is not delayed on account of an ongoing Police investigation or prosecution.

Future Domestic Homicide Reviews should ensure that appropriate enquiries are made at schools/colleges. Individual management reviews should be requested from schools. Representation from schools on future DHR Panels should be considered.

Nottinghamshire Police communicate to staff that the completion of the PPN (Police Protection Notice) is part of the investigative process and that professional curiosity should be exercised when disclosures are made during this risk assessment process.

Nottinghamshire Police to focus on improving arrest rates and reducing the use of voluntary attendance for suspects in domestic abuse investigations. Chief Officers to provide clear guidance regarding positive action and the expectation of arrest over voluntary attendance.

Nottinghamshire Police have a Police Officer, ‘SPOC,’ dedicated to stalking crimes and, collaborating with partner agencies, holds a monthly “stalking clinic.” This should be recognised as good practice and disseminated to other areas.

Training and awareness-raising regarding professional curiosity to be more focused on an understanding of what this term means and its practical application.

For all inpatient units to be reminded of the Think Family approach to patients. This will include collating all demographic details regarding the patient’s children or children they have contact with so the risks towards them can be fully assessed. Training materials and Information briefings used within the Healthcare Foundation Trust regarding understanding family relationships to be updated and focused on adult services.

Mandatory DVA training to include information on factors that may increase the risk of serious harm from domestic abuse and the risk of referring to Relate

Increase awareness of the Police's role in domestic abuse and routes of communication with Police officers