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
Cumbria review
CSP: CumbriaPublished: May 2025Year of death: 2018Extracted: 4 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identifies failures in agencies' identification and response to the victim's coercive control, economic abuse, and self-neglect. It highlights a lack of professional curiosity, inadequate multi-agency information sharing, and gaps in support for complex needs.
Home Office classifications
26 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - physical disability
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - housing services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
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
4 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Cumberland Community Safety Partnership
The victim’s review will be developed into an accessible case study and will include a visual training tool. These resources will raise awareness of coercive control, economic abuse, and self-neglect. The resources will be shared by CSP and CSAB to partner agencies for training and will be available on their websites for all organisations to access.
Home Group will produce a specific self-neglect policy and will raise awareness of the CSAB escalation policy. Launch of the new policy will include training in self-neglect awareness and referral pathways and raise awareness of how to escalate concerns following safeguarding or MARAC referrals.
Addressed to
Cumberland Community Safety Partnership
Professional curiosity training to be further rolled out across all partner agencies. This began in 2022, will continue and will be monitored for impact.
Victim Support’s Domestic Abuse Awareness training will be made widely available to partner agencies. This includes coercive control awareness, older people and domestic abuse, and homicide timeline research.