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Serious case reviews in adult safeguarding in England
— an analysis of a sample of reports | | Author(s) | Jill Manthorpe, Stephen Martineau |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 41, no 2, March 2011 |
| Pages | pp 224-241 |
| Source | http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Management [care] ; Policy ; Research Reviews ; England. |
| Annotation | Serious Case Reviews (SCRs) of vulnerable adults are inquiries conducted by adult protection or safeguarding boards at the local level when harm or death has occurred. This article summarises an analysis of 22 SCR reports investigating: the rationale for the review; detail of victim; alleged abusers; settings; form of abuse and neglect; threshold for the SCR; review personnel; purposes; processes or methodology; cost; timescale; lessons or recommendations; and follow-up. Reflections on SCRs are provided in the context of the current review of adult safeguarding policy, which received calls for the activity of SCRs to be more consistent and for lessons learned to be analysed and more widely circulated among social workers, other professionals, regulators and policy makers. Overall, the authors concluded that a greater degree of standardisation of approach would increase the quality and usefulness of these reports, and also improve the degree to which they are amenable to central collation. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110526003 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: QA: QAD: 3A:6KC: 82 |
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