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: Barnet
Published: September 2024
Year of death: 2018
Extracted: 5 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 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.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | North Central London Integrated Care Board |
| 2 | 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. | North Central London Integrated Care Board |
| 3 | 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. | Barnet CSP |
| 4 | 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. | All agencies |
| 5 | Review multi-agency domestsic abuse training to ensure that the need for a trauma informed response and professional curisoity are appropraitely foregrounded. | London Borough of Barnet |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||