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— summary of findings of a national analysis of local codes of practice for the protection of vulnerable adults |
| Author(s) | Keith Sumner |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA; Department of Health - DH |
| Journal title | Action Points, issue 16, January-March 2003 |
| Publisher | Action on Elder Abuse, January-March 2003 |
| Pages | pp 2-5 |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Rights [elderly] ; Management [care] ; Policy ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The Government signalled its commitment to promoting greater protection from abuse for all vulnerable adults in the "No secrets" guidance published in March 2000. Subsequently, all local authority social services departments were required to ensure the implementation of the requirements of "No Secrets", and to complete local codes by 31 October 2001. This commission from the DH was to analyse the codes of practice for the protection of vulnerable adults (POVA) produced by England's local authorities. The analysis covered 92% of such authorities and focused on three main areas of the many detailed requirements and recommendations of the guidance: high level strategic commitments; more detailed strategic and operational commitments; and good practice guidance. This article summarises these findings; a full report is not available. Sumner concludes that "whilst a significant number of authorities are making good progress and considerable efforts to address the central requirements and issues ... the remaining majority of authorities clearly have to address a range of issues." Sumner urges the DH to "drive local implementation forward as a priority", and points to this commission and other work being done in this area, which may be signalling renewed DH commitment to do so. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030512212 A |
| Classmark | QNT: IKR: QA: QAD: QAJ: QK6: 4C |
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