Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2024 0:03:55 GMT
Serious case reviews of domestic homicides are pointless, according to the new Home Office minister, Jess Phillips.
The Labour MP said “nobody learns anything” from the reviews, adding that it would be more fruitful to learn lessons from cases where domestic deaths had been avoided.
The minister, who was surprisingly called into government last month by Sir Keir Starmer despite having resigned from the Labour frontbench last year over its stance on the conflict in Gaza, said she had become “slightly obsessed” with the prominence of the reviews.
Phillips, whose Home Office role focuses on tackling domestic violence against women and girls, told the Edinburgh International Book Festival of the prevalence of the reviews: “I wonder why we always try and learn from failure.”
Phillips said the reviews, known as domestic homicide reviews, were held after every murder or killing involving people known to each other, adding: “What everybody does when they get the lessons learned from it is to say, ‘well, this will never happen again, we will all learn the lessons’. Which is total bullshit and nobody learns anything. There is literally no point in doing it frankly.”
The Labour MP said “nobody learns anything” from the reviews, adding that it would be more fruitful to learn lessons from cases where domestic deaths had been avoided.
The minister, who was surprisingly called into government last month by Sir Keir Starmer despite having resigned from the Labour frontbench last year over its stance on the conflict in Gaza, said she had become “slightly obsessed” with the prominence of the reviews.
Phillips, whose Home Office role focuses on tackling domestic violence against women and girls, told the Edinburgh International Book Festival of the prevalence of the reviews: “I wonder why we always try and learn from failure.”
Phillips said the reviews, known as domestic homicide reviews, were held after every murder or killing involving people known to each other, adding: “What everybody does when they get the lessons learned from it is to say, ‘well, this will never happen again, we will all learn the lessons’. Which is total bullshit and nobody learns anything. There is literally no point in doing it frankly.”
