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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.

Original review (PDF) ↗ Source: Home Office DHR Library

Summary AI-generated

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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.

Home Office classifications

27 tags

Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.

  • Victim - died by suicide
  • Victim - substance misuse
  • Victim - mental ill health
  • Victim - depression
  • Victim - psychosis
  • Victim - self harm
  • Victim - suicidal thoughts
  • Victim - suicide attempts
  • Victim - serious or life limiting illness
  • Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
  • Children - removed into care
  • Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
  • Aggravating factors - separation
  • Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
  • Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
  • DHR process - family contributed to dhr
  • DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
  • DHR process - police recommendations
  • DHR process - health services recommendations
  • DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
  • DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
  • 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

6 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index

Recommendation R1

Addressed to NCSP

Recommendation 1: NCSP to ensure that an EINA and action plan is completed in relation to future Domestic abuse strategies.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R2

Addressed to GP/ICB

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.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R3

Addressed to Home Office

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.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R4

Addressed to NCSP

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.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R5

Addressed to NCSP

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.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R6

Addressed to NCSP

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.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗