Wakefield review

The Wakefield Safer Together Partnership should ensure that learning summaries have been produced and circulated within the agencies providing services in Wakefield and participated in the review.

The Home Office should consult with the Department of Health and Social Care on whether further research and guidance are required on the use of GHB as part of sex.

Benchmark health assessment templates with other sexual health services.

Primary care clinicians encountering any sort of drug misuse for the first time should consider undertaking a comprehensive assessment as per UK Guidelines.

Probation Service to offer adequate numbers of Unpaid Work placements for those sentenced to requirements by the Courts

To continue to raise awareness in YAS staff of attempted suicide as a potential indicator of domestic abuse.

The Wakefield Safer Together Partnership should ensure that local DASH training and guidance include the significance and purpose of routine inquiry about non-fatal strangulation as well as any use of substances.

The Home Office consult with the National College of Policing about whether further training and guidance is required on the investigation of deaths associated with strangulation during sex giving attention to issues such as how consent and sexual history are handled.

All people subject to Probation Supervision are to be offered minimum monthly contact with a probation practitioner.

To actively encourage professional curiosity and to purposefully question when concerns are evident during a call to 999/111.

The Wakefield Safer Together Partnership should consider what further action should be taken to increase the awareness and response to the risks associated with non-fatal strangulation.

The Home Office to consult with the Department of Health and Social Care about strategies for increasing public and professional awareness of the dangers associated with strangulation and GHB during sex.

To raise awareness of the importance of time-critical police reporting

The Director of Public Health in Wakefield should consider whether additional training and guidance to health professionals are indicated in responding to patients who present with a history of steroid use.

The Home Office should consult with the Department of Health and Social Care as to whether any additional guidance should be issued to ambulance trusts on how requests for police response are managed under critical response pathways.

The YAS should ensure that a focused learning briefing is issued to staff to ensure that practitioners understand their responsibilities in notifying the police as soon as possible and know how to use the specific call response protocol and pre-alerting hospitals about relevant information.

The Home Office should consult with the Department of Health and Social Care about further advice to primary health care providers to undertake a comprehensive assessment of drug misuse in line with the 2017 UK Guidelines on Drug Misuse (section 2.2.2).