Domestic Abuse Related Death Review - Find a freedom of information request

Request

I'm writing on behalf of the Associate Professor of Social Care at the University of Birmingham. Funded by Devon Partnership NHS Trust, they are leading research on carer-perpetrated homicides.

The aim is to explore how these cases differ from other domestic homicides and inform more nuanced, evidence-based responses in policy and practice.

As part of this research, we have identified 60 homicides, perpetrated between 2015 and 2019 that meet our definition of having been perpetrated by someone who was (or could reasonably have been expected to be) an unpaid carer for the victim.

To ensure that we have identified all relevant cases, we are approaching each safeguarding board to check whether there are any Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews available which have not been published publicly.

1) Please would you be kind enough to let me know if there are any of these additional Domestic Abuse Related Death Review (DARDR's) available and if it would be possible to provide these?

Decision

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

Please find attached the DARDR reports that have been published where you could class the perpetrator as an informal carer for the victim

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and these can be provided

Reference number
FOI 6580786
Date request received
13/04/23
Date of decision
26/04/23