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Making Safeguarding Personal
— progress of English local authorities | | Author(s) | Mike Briggs, Adi Cooper |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 20, no 1, 2018 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2018 |
| Pages | pp 59-68 |
| Source | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/jap |
| Keywords | Protection [vulnerable adults] ; Services ; Person-centred care ; Local Authority Agencies ; England ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | During 2016 a survey of 115 English local authorities compared progress on the implementation of the Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) approach through their Adult Social Care departments and in relation to their area Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs) and partner organisations. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the survey in relation to personalised social care and its impact on organisations, their staff and service users, and conclude with wider implications and recommendations for further work. As part of the survey, a series of guided interviews were conducted with safeguarding leads. The sample was randomly picked and balanced to give a fair representation of the different types of councils. The interviews were conducted by a team of five people. All interviewers had in-depth experience of adult safeguarding and were currently practising independent chairs of SABs. The interviewers followed a prepared schedule consisting of a mixture of open and closed questions. All interviews were held over the phone and averaged one-hour duration. Study results pointed to the impression that the majority of local authorities had completed the first step of introducing MSP, i.e. they had trained their workers and modified their systems. Most local authorities were moving into the next phase of embedding user-focused work into their practice and culture, and were at various points along that journey. However, most had still to engage partner organisations beyond a mere acceptance of MSP as `a good thing'. The research has wide-ranging implications for organisations and their workers in the field of adult safeguarding based on its findings. Its limitations are that only organisational leaders and managers were interviewed, although reference is extensively made to initiatives that engage service users. The report references many practical implications to improve the practice of adult safeguarding in an attempt to make it more person-centred. Examples of good practice are given and recommendations are made to organisations. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180309207 A |
| Classmark | CA3G: I: PAA: PD: 82: 4C |
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