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The Protection of Vulnerable Adults list: an investigation of referral patterns and approaches to decision-making
— final report | | Author(s) | Martin Stevens, Shereen Hussein, Stephen Martineau |
| Corporate Author | Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London |
| Publisher | Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London, London, July 2008 |
| Pages | 191 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 (DH) 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 Social Care Workforce Research Unit's smaller study in 2005 that looked at commonalities and the extent of differences between the first 100 referrals to the POVA list. The report includes an analysis of referral records, and considers 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. Implications for recruitment, training, support, registration and management of social care workers are considered. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081028205 E |
| Classmark | QNT: QM: Q3: 4C |
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