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: 2019
Extracted: 11 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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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The review highlights significant concerns regarding inter-agency information sharing, missed opportunities for multi-agency risk assessment (MARAC), and inadequate responses to the victim's vulnerability and the perpetrator's substance abuse. It also notes issues with the management of the perpetrator's release from prison.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| Eight | All agencies to implement recommendations as detailed in section fourteen and to report only to ESSCP if the agency cannot deliver the action. | ESSCP | all agencies involved in this DHR |
| Eleven | The Home Office to consider including in any new updated DHR guidance the benefits (where appropriate) of including the employer of a domestic abuse victim as part of DHR Panel to complement statutory agency responses to domestic abuse. | Home Office |
| Five | For all professionals to participate in training to ensure a full understanding of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 including legislation which will protect victims of domestic abuse, e.g. non-fatal strangulation. | ESSCP |
| Four | The police, probation, and specialist domestic abuse services to review the release process convicted perpetrator of domestic abuse to ensure appropriate safety planning can be put in place by agencies for a victim of domestic abuse. This to include a review of completion of sentencing requirements. | ESSCP | Police | Probation | specialist DA services |
| Nine | The Home Office and the Department of Health to engage with the Primary Care named GP network to promote and embed routine domestic abuse enquiry into GP working culture. | Home Office | Department of Health |
| One | ESSCP to review and update its communication strategy for the wider community to raise awareness about domestic abuse in all its forms including, controlling coercive behaviour, stalking, emotional abuse, and economic abuse. Information also to include the behaviours of a victim and a perpetrator and what is new for the community in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and what local support is available. | ESSCP |
| Seven | ESSCP to be assured that agencies are utilising professional judgement for referrals of cases assessed as medium risk into MARAC to ensure that identification of support and multi-agency safety planning is offered to victims of domestic abuse. | ESSCP |
| Six | ESSCP seeks assurance from agencies that professionals/practitioners are provided with the skills/tools/ to use professional judgement and critical challenge to challenge partner agencies in a constructive manner relating to a DASH rating to enable a MARAC referral and therefore a multi-agency response to the needs of a victim of domestic abuse. | ESSCP | agencies involved in the DHR |
| Ten | The Home Office with the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to deliver a national campaign to promote “Workplace support for victims of domestic abuse” to all businesses and to encourage businesses to have workplace policies to support victims of domestic abuse. | Home Office | Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
| Three | ESSCP to raise awareness with local businesses about domestic abuse, what it is, how it impacts on employees, what support there is in the local area and how an employer can support a victim of domestic abuse. | ESSCP |
| Two | ESSCP raise awareness with the local community about domestic abuse and older people and to include information about services available for older people. | ESSCP |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||