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

Harlow review

CSP: Harlow Published: October 2024 Year of death: 2022 Extracted: 7 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 highlights missed opportunities by police and health professionals to identify and respond to domestic abuse, particularly concerning the male victim's experiences and the impact of alcohol misuse. It also notes a lack of inter-agency information sharing and workplace support for staff experiencing abuse.

Extracted recommendations

7 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	Develop a co-ordinated and multi-agency domestic abuse awareness campaign including male victims, and victims who have additional complexities such as mental health and substance misuse.	SETDAB
2	All healthcare staff should receive additional training and resources to better recognise signs of domestic abuse especially with regards to male patients and those with additional complex needs. Any training should include the potential biases practitioners may have when recognising abuse with men compared to the recognition of abuse for women. Additionally, there needs to be an understanding of how male victims may present, and how their health concerns such as alcohol or mental health may be as a result of abuse within a relationship.	Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB
3	All GPs and practice staff (including receptionists) should have domestic abuse awareness training, to enable them to raise any concerns to the practice safeguarding lead for further risk assessment and appropriate action.	Herts & West Essex ICB
4	EPUT policies to be appropriately linked to the domestic abuse toolkit – including Employee Wellbeing sickness and absence policy, one to one support and appraisal policy.	EPUT
5	EPUT to provide record keeping advice and guidance within the Domestic Abuse Training and Management Training.	EPUT
6	EPUT Supervision Policy and template to add domestic abuse to any safeguarding concerns and how to escalate concerns and actions in supervision notes.	EPUT
7	MARAC to be given a statutory framework and requirement for agencies to attend and be proactive members of the discussions and action plans.	Domestic Abuse Commissioner
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗