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Making decisions about who should be barred from working with adults in vulnerable situations — the need for social work understanding
Author(s)	Martin Stevens, Jill Manthorpe, Stephen Martineau
Journal title	British Journal of Social Work, vol 40, no 1, January 2010
Pages	pp 290-310
Source	http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcn135
Keywords	Elder abuse ; Personnel ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Evaluation.
Annotation	This article reports on an element of recently completed research that aimed to explore factors leading to placement on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) List - a barring list unique to England and Wales. A multiple methods approach was adopted, involving in-depth quantitative analysis of POVA referral records and a set of discussion groups and interviews investigating how decisions were being made. This article focuses on this latter element, setting out and discussing the overall schema for decision-making resulting from the analysis, which identified an interplay between emotional and moral responses to the individual referred and evidence about the alleged misconduct. The importance of involving all stakeholders in the development of such a decision-making system is raised through the research and implications for social workers are explored. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-100706006 A
Classmark	QNT: QM: Q3: 4C
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