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Weighing the evidence — a case for using vignettes to elicit public and practitioner views of the workings of the POVA vetting and barring scheme
Author(s)	Joan Rapaport, Martin Stevens, Jill Manthorpe
Journal title	The Journal of Adult Protection, vol 10, no 2, May 2008
Pages	pp 6-17
Source	Website: http://www.pavpub.com
Keywords	Elder abuse ; Personnel ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Law ; Attitude ; Social surveys.
Annotation	The Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list records those individuals barred from working and volunteering with vulnerable adults in England and Wales. The Department of Health (DH) commissioned the Social Care Workforce Unit at King's College London to undertake research investigating the steps involved in recommending to the Secretary of State for Health whether a care worker should be included on the POVA list. The aims of the study were to investigate patterns of referrals to the list, factors associated with the collection of evidence to present to the Minister, and to detail the operation of the list. This article focuses on the preliminary part of the research that covered discussion groups with a purposive sample of older people, managers and staff during which a vignette approach was used to explore these perspectives. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-080707204 A
Classmark	QNT: QM: Q3: VR: DP: 3F
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