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

East Sussex review

CSP: East Sussex Published: September 2024 Year of death: 2020 Extracted: 6 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 identified concerns regarding agencies' assessment of the perpetrator's mental health and alcohol misuse, insufficient professional curiosity about domestic abuse with the victim, and inadequate information sharing, particularly at the point of separation. Barriers to the victim disclosing abuse and a lack of a consistent "Whole Family" approach were also noted.

Extracted recommendations

6 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
—	SPFT to address how practitioners respond to threats of risk of harm to family members made by an inpatient of mental health service and consider whether a policy needs producing or whether an existing policy needs amending.	Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
1	East Sussex Safer Communities Board should produce guidance regarding best practice ‘use of language’ in recording and assessment and ensure that all partner agencies incorporate it into their staff training.	East Sussex Safer Communities Board
2	East Sussex Safer Communities Board to ensure that health practitioners are aware of the NICE quality standard regarding clinical indicators of domestic abuse.	East Sussex Safer Communities Board
3	East Sussex Safer Communities Board to raise the public awareness of domestic abuse.	East Sussex Safer Communities Board
4	East Sussex Safer Communities Board to raise awareness across all partner agencies of Dr Jane Monckton Smith’s eight-stage domestic homicide pattern model and ensure that they are aware of the benefits of incorporating it into practice.	East Sussex Safer Communities Board
5	East Sussex Safer Communities Board to review existing training programmes and ensure that practitioners embed a ‘Whole Family’ approach into their practice, that includes: • How practitioners respond to threats of risk of harm to family members, and • Identification of carers’ stresses and any resulting risk to others.	East Sussex Safer Communities Board
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗