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| Governance in adult safeguarding in Scotland since the implementation of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 | | Author(s) | Sally Cornish, Michael Preston-Shoot |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 15, no 5, 2013 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 223-236 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Protection [vulnerable adults] ; Social Services Departments ; Management [care] ; Multi disciplinary ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 (ASPSA 2007) places a duty on local councils to make inquiries about a person's well-being, property or financial affairs, where it seems that the person may be at risk and need protection or other intervention. This paper reports the findings from research into the governance of adult protection in Scotland, with particular focus on the outcomes of provision for multi-agency leadership and management of adult safeguarding in the ASPSA 2007. Comparisons are made between these findings and the evidence on the governance of adult safeguarding in England. The study was a thematic analysis of Adult Protection Committee (APC) biennial reports on implementation of the 2007 Act to the Scottish Government, associated documentation, and key informant interviews with professionals involved in adult protection leadership and practice. The study identified a complex pattern of arrangements, activities, experiences and challenges across management structures of APCs, the development of policies and procedures, multi-agency working, training, performance assessment and quality management, engagement of service users and carers, and how the 2007 Act operated. Service users and carers were not directly involved in the documentary review or in the key informant interviews. There remains a need to investigate the impacts on practice and service user experience of different forms of governance of adult protection arrangements. This paper identifies outcomes and challenges in respect of multi-agency approaches to governance taken by APCs in Scotland. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-131003204 A |
| Classmark | QNT: CA3G: PF: QA: 3DM: 9A |
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