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
Norfolk review
CSP: Norfolk
Published: May 2026
Year of death: 2022
Extracted: 6 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
Key concerns include the lack of routine domestic abuse enquiry by healthcare, barriers for gay male victims in disclosing abuse, and the need for improved training and policy for health and counselling services on abuse recognition and its links to suicide.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| R1 | Recommendation 1: NCSP to ensure that an EINA and action plan is completed in relation to future Domestic abuse strategies. | NCSP |
| R2 | Recommendation 2: Update the template DA policy, bringing it up to date with changes in legislation, so as to encourage professionals to recognise indicators of, and routinely ask about domestic abuse. | GP/ICB |
| R3 | Recommendation 3: The Home Office are to seek to raise the status of domestic abuse (DA), exploring the potential of regulating private counsellors to ensure that DA is specifically cited within training requirements, and policy to ensure counsellors are equipped to recognise and respond to domestic abuse. And in so doing consider the role of regulated counsellors taking part in statutory reviews. | Home Office |
| R4 | Recommendation 4: Seek to raise awareness of the intersection of an individual’s stressors (mental health, financial worries, bereavement) and wider factors (DA and suicide rates within LGBT communities & unconscious bias) across health professionals and local counselling services, that empowers those professionals to be able to recognise and respond appropriately to patients/clients. | NCSP |
| R5 | Recommendation 5: NCSP are to develop a coordinated awareness raising campaign to domestic abuse across the county’s counsellors ensuring they are equipped to recognise and respond appropriately to domestic abuse. | NCSP |
| R6 | Recommendation 6: The learning from this review is shared across the partnership to raise awareness of domestic abuse, links to suicide, risk of intersectionality for gay male victims and all the learning opportunities raised. | NCSP |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||