I have extensive experience in commissioning, overseeing, and coordinating responses to Domestic Homicide Reviews (being renamed as 'Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews'). My experience stems from first serving as a local authority commissioner and then as an Independent Chair. In 2025, I achieved the Home Office's required Certificate in Chairing a Domestic Homicide Review.

 

Of the Domestic Homicide Reviews that I have chaired, all were approved at first submission to the Home Office Quality Assurance Panel:

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• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Patricia)

• Bexley (Nargiza)

• Brent (Elena)

• Cornwall (Natalie)

• Central Bedfordshire (Andrew)

• Croydon (Emma and Child A)

• Gwynedd and Anglesey (Joan)

• Elmbridge (Bishakha)

• Hammersmith & Fulham (Jimena)

• Haringey (Asen)

• Lambeth (Sophia)

• Lambeth (Elaine)

• Leicester (Grace)

• Leicester (Shilpa)

• Lewisham (Kate)

• Lewisham (Ms RH)

• Stroud (Patrick)

• Tower Hamlets (Sajwa)

• Tower Hamlets (Salma)

• Vale of Glamorgan (Kim)

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 I also have experience with other review and audit processes, including those undertaken by Local Safeguarding Children Boards and Safeguarding Adults Boards.

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I can work with you to:

 

• Develop action plans in response to local review recommendations

• Evaluate the delivery of local reviews, including the progress of action plans

• Disseminate learning from reviews

• Prepare for future reviews by evaluating the local review process, identifying common themes and issues or assessing the outcomes achieved.

 

All my work is in line with national statutory guidance and informed by current research.

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I am also a researcher,. and I have published extensively in this area. To read more about my research, follow this link.