Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews

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).

DARDR 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

To assist Community Safety Partnerships in undertaking this duty the Home Office published statutory guidance on conducting domestic homicide reviews.

Surrey DARDR published summary reports

• Elmbridge
• Epsom & Ewell (no published DARDRs)
• Guildford (no published DARDRs)
• Mole Valley (no published DARDRs)
• Reigate & Banstead
• Runnymede (no published DARDRs)
• Spelthorne (no published DARDRs)
• Surrey Heath (no published DARDRs)
• Tandridge (no published DARDRs)
• Waverley
• Woking