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
Barnet review
CSP: BarnetPublished: September 2024Year of death: 2018Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified concerns regarding inadequate multi-agency support for parents managing a child's complex needs, insufficient professional curiosity about domestic abuse and substance use, and challenges in engaging families with services, particularly when support was declined.
Home Office classifications
37 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - panic attacks
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - was a carer
Perpetrator - carer for victim
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - self harm
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
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 others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
5 recommendations pulled from the report · 3 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
North Central London Integrated Care Board
North Central London Integrated Care Board to ensure that Primary Care Practitioners are aware of the alerts and flags for vulnerability that are within the EMIS patient record system and are taking these into account within their assessments and decision making.
Addressed to
North Central London Integrated Care Board
North Central London Integrated Care Board to assure itself that GP training supervision and appraisals include managing disclosures of the problematic use of alcohol and other substances and the familial, psychological and psychosocial factors that are impacting on the patient.
Barnet CSP to reassure itself that all member agencies have effective engagement strategies in place, with escalating efforts when services are repeatedly declined. At the very least, a conversation should take place to try to identifiy what support the client / patient would like to receive and the results of this to be fed into subsequent service planning / service specifications.
When carrying out Child Protection Investigations all agencies to consider who needs to be interviewed and how this is to take place, remaining curious about risks of domestic abuse, coercive and controlling behaviour.
Review multi-agency domestsic abuse training to ensure that the need for a trauma informed response and professional curisoity are appropraitely foregrounded.