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Prevention of abuse
— a brief review of the literature | | Author(s) | Alison Faulkner |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 14, no 1, 2012 |
| Pages | pp 35-38 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com |
| Keywords | At risk ; Elder abuse ; Rights [elderly] ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | This short paper reviews the literature on prevention in adult safeguarding and identifies the themes that emerge, with particular reference to personalisation and the views of service users. It is part of a larger piece of work commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE); the full report is available on the SCIE website along with examples of prevention in practice. Primarily a literature review, the review began with a scoping exercise looking at the available data, literature, and best practice in relation to prevention in adult safeguarding. Using reference harvesting and expert recommendations, the author produced a final list of 52 documents. Many factors were identified that may contribute to preventing abuse in the context of adult safeguarding. However, it can be difficult to demonstrate with any certainty that abuse has been or is being prevented. The views of service users consulted for the review of No Secrets are that they would prefer to be empowered to make their own decisions with regard to safeguarding, rather than have the decisions made for them in an overly protective or risk-averse environment. It is recommended that local authorities consider risk enablement for service users as a parallel process to adult safeguarding. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121026019 A |
| Classmark | CA3: QNT: IKR: 64A |
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