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
South Nottinghamshire review
CSP: South NottinghamshirePublished: February 2024Year of death: 2016Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
This DHR identifies systemic failures in identifying the true level of risk posed by the perpetrator's long-term, controlling, and coercive domestic abuse. Agencies missed opportunities to intervene effectively, partly due to the victim's minimisation and challenges in information sharing, despite the victim's death being attributed to cocaine toxicity following a severe assault.
Home Office classifications
36 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to social services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to health services 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 friends 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
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - family attended dhr panel
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
South Nottinghamshire Community Safety Partnership
That the Community Safety Partnership ensures that training on coercive control is provided to all new staff in the local authority and that the provision of the training is extended to cover all agencies within the Community Safety Partnership.
That Nottinghamshire Police provides reassurance to the CSP that evidence led prosecutions are now considered more robustly in all domestic abuse cases.
Addressed to
Nottinghamshire County Council – Children’s Social Care
Given the time since the IMR was written, that CSC provides reassurance to the CSP that this is now routine and provide an explanation about how this reassurance has been arrived at. That CSC are more persistent in contacting agencies if parents refuse as part of an initial assessment or where the concerns are significant enough for this to be done without consent. The review acknowledges that CSC works with parents to understand the importance of sharing information with their consent to support the protection of their children.
That the Department for Education develops an effective, national campaign to change the view of CSC’s role in supporting victims of domestic abuse. Also, that resources and training are provided to social workers to assist when carrying out these assessments.