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Training, knowledge and confidence in safeguarding adults
— results from a postal survey of the health and social care sector in a single county | | Author(s) | Lindsey Pike, Tony Gilbert, Corinne Leverton |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 13, no 5, 2011 |
| Pages | pp 259-274 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Management [care] ; Policy ; Social workers ; Medical workers ; Training [welfare work] ; Cross sectional surveys ; Cornwall. |
| Annotation | Following the first major multi-agency UK survey of its kind, this paper aims to clarify the relationship between safeguarding adults training, staff knowledge and confidence. The survey analysed 647 responses from a cross-sectional postal sample survey of the health and social care sector in Cornwall. Differences in knowledge and confidence around safeguarding were observed between staff groups and agencies. Training contributed to around a 20 per cent increase in knowledge; a ceiling effect was noted. Confidence linked knowledge and action: staff who were more confident offered more sophisticated responses regarding improving safeguarding processes. A low response rate (17%) and the specific context limit generalisability. Knowledge and confidence measures were simplistic. Further research is needed on the mechanism of action by which safeguarding adults training is effective. Safeguarding adults training and a targeted approach to the analysis of learning needs should be debated in the context of training transfer. Training should be evaluated to ascertain its effectiveness. This research was undertaken as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between the University of Plymouth and Cornwall Council, which ended in June 2010. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121026013 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: QA: QAD: QR: QT: QW: 3KB: 8CO |
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