Government not learning lessons from deaths of domestic abuse victims, report finds

Nicole Jacobs, the domestic abuse commissioner, said the report showed that the government was ignoring the voices of women who had been killed. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

The voices of women who have died at the hands of a partner or former partner in England and Wales are being ignored and the government is failing to heed warnings from their deaths, a damning report from the domestic abuse commissioner has revealed.

An examination of how the government learns lessons from the deaths of domestic abuse victims has found that half of the national recommendations made in domestic homicide reviews (DHRs) are not put into action, with only a quarter fully implemented.