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The Protection of Vulnerable Adults list: an investigation of referral patterns and approaches to decision-making
— summary report | | Author(s) | Martin Stevens, Shereen Hussein, Stephen Martineau |
| Corporate Author | Social Care Workforce Research Unit, Kings College London |
| Publisher | Social Care Workforce Research Unit, Kings College London, London, July 2008 |
| Pages | 17 pp |
| Source | Download from website: http://kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/interdisciplinary/sc... |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Personnel ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | As part of the implementation of the Care Standards Act (2000), the Department of Health introduced the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list on 26 July 2004, as a complement to the requirement for the development of local multi-agency adult protection policies and procedures. This study follows on from the Research Unit's 2005 smaller study that looked at commonalities and the extent of differences between the first 100 referrals to the POVA list. This summary report outlines the research on the analysis of referral records, and synthesising the suitability or otherwise of referrals based on interviews with 18 POVA team members and two discussion groups with 5 managers, 3 frontline practitioners and 14 older people. Recommendations for the development of the the POVA list and the new vetting and barring scheme and for social care more widely, is presented. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-081028204 E |
| Classmark | QNT: QM: Q3: 4C |
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