Recommendation Eight
All agencies to implement recommendations as detailed in section fourteen and to report only to ESSCP if the agency cannot deliver the action.
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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.
Original review (PDF) ↗
Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary AI-generated
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.
Home Office classifications
42 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
- Victim - mental ill health
- Victim - anxiety
- Victim - depression
- Victim - suicidal thoughts
- Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
- Victim - immigration involvement
- Perpetrator - case heard in court
- Perpetrator - issued life sentence
- Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
- Perpetrator - substance misuse
- Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to police 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 probation services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to housing services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - attended drug and alcohol services
- Perpetrator - managed by mappa
- Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
- Aggravating factors - separation
- Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
- Aggravating factors - stalking
- Aggravating factors - physical abuse
- Aggravating factors - economic abuse
- DHR process - family contributed to dhr
- DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
- DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
- DHR process - family received draft report
- DHR process - police recommendations
- DHR process - health services recommendations
- DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
- DHR process - probation services recommendations
- DHR process - housing services recommendations
- DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
- DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
- 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
Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation 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.
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Recommendation Two
ESSCP raise awareness with the local community about domestic abuse and older people and to include information about services available for older people.
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