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| Referrals to the police of vulnerable adult abuse | | Author(s) | Jackie Ann Farquharson |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 18, no 2, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 119-127 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Protection [vulnerable adults] ; Local Authority ; Referrals ; Police. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this paper was to examine the outcome of referrals made to one police force in England by three local authorities between March 2010 and April 2011, in order to identify and understand the barriers to prosecuting suspects of abuse or harm against vulnerable adults and improve inter-agency co-operation. All referrals to this police force are given a crime number when they are recorded on the Criminal Justice System database together with a vulnerable adult flag and a status code which indicates the outcome following a police investigation. A search of the database using the vulnerable adult flag identifies the total number of referrals and outcomes for the selected period. This can then be imported into an Excel spreadsheet to allow further analysis to take place. Over 87 per cent of all referrals of alleged abuse to vulnerable adults made to this police force did not establish that a crime had been committed. Of those that did only one per cent resulted in either a caution or court proceedings. This was a small sample from one, predominantly rural, police force. The research contributes to a greater knowledge of the outcomes of adult safeguarding referrals made primarily by local authorities to the police and how police checks are being used as a means of providing employers of regulated activities with information on individuals who have been suspected of abusing vulnerable adults. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160415221 A |
| Classmark | QNT: CA3G: PE: L5R: TWH |
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