Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews (previously known as Domestic Homicide Reviews or DHRs)

What is a Domestic Abuse Related Death Review?

A Domestic Abuse Related Death Review (DARDR) is carried out where a person has died as a result of abuse, violence or neglect by a relative, intimate partner or member of the same household.

Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews (DARDR) (previously known as Domestic Homicide Reviews or DHRs) were established on a statutory basis under Section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act (2004).

DARDRs are carried out by Community Safety Partnerships to ensure that lessons are learnt when a person has died as a result of domestic abuse, either by homicide or suicide. The purpose of a DARDR is to:

• Establish what lessons can be learned from the homicide regarding the way in which local professionals and organisations work individually and together to safeguard victims
• Identify clearly what those lessons are both within and between agencies, how and within what timescales they will be acted on, and what is expected to change as a result
• Apply those lessons to service responses including changes to policies and procedures as appropriate
• Prevent domestic abuse and domestic homicides and suicides, and improve service responses for all domestic abuse victims and their children through improved intra and inter-agency working.

Publication of reviews

The Safer Waverley Partnership is required to publish a final, anonymised set of recommendations, overview report, executive summary following agreement from the Home Office Quality Assurance Panel.   Where relevant, these can be found below along with the letter from the Home Office.

DHR1 Waverley

DHR1 Recommendations

DHR3 Waverley

DH3 Home Office letter

DH3 Executive summary

DH3 Overview report and action plan

DHR4 Waverley

DH4 Home Office approval to publish

DH4 Overview report

DHR5 Waverley

DHR5 Feedback letter from Home Office

DHR5 Executive Summary

DHR5 Overview report

DHR5 Action Plan

DHR5 Summary Statement from the family on the Executive Summary

DHR6 Waverley

DHR6 Feedback letter from Home Office

DHR6 Executive Summary

DHR6 Overview report