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When will we ever learn?
- Author:
- KITSON Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 8, Spring 2007, pp.4-6.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
This article reports on institutional abuse of people with learning disabilities living in NHS run residential care in Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust. The article summarises some of the findings of the Healthcare Commission report.
Significant Incident Learning Process (SILP) – the experience of facilitating and evaluating the process in adult safeguarding
- Authors:
- CLAWSON Rachael, KITSON Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 15(5), 2013, pp.237-245.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: In recent years a variety of methods have been used to review cases where a vulnerable adult has died or been seriously harmed, the method chosen largely depending upon whether a single agency or multi-agency approach is required. Serious Case Reviews (SCRs) are more frequently used in cases requiring a multi-agency approach; however, their effectiveness in terms of being timely, value for money and a means of learning lessons has been questioned. Safeguarding Adult Boards (SAB) in the East Midlands have sought alternative means for reviewing some cases including the Significant Incident Learning Process (SILP). The purpose of this paper is to explore the experience of facilitating and evaluating a pilot SILP. Design/methodology/approach: The paper explores the purpose and function of the SILP and then examines the process of facilitating a “live” event. A range of issues are explored including who should be involved, concerns around participation and working alongside criminal/police investigations and/or therapeutic intervention. Findings: The findings are discussed and highlight the need for skilled, independent facilitators and robust “ground rules”. The paper evaluates the process and makes recommendations for further use of SILP. Originality/value: This paper explores a new approach to reviewing cases previously reviewed using SCR, as such it will be of interest to all agencies and organisations represented on SAB. The evaluation of the SILP found it to be favourable in comparison with SCRs in terms of cost, being a process that can be completed within three months of an incident occurring and in terms of timely dissemination of lessons learned. (Publisher abstract)
Outcomes following adult safeguarding alerts: a critical analysis of key factors
- Authors:
- FYSON Rachel, KITSON Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 14(2), 2012, pp.93-103.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper presents findings from an evaluation of adult safeguarding in an English local authority regarding the number of safeguarding investigations that resulted in inconclusive outcomes. Adult social care teams were asked to complete a survey about the five most recent adult safeguarding alerts that they had managed to completion. Respondents were also asked to comment on factors that they perceived to have helped or hindered the investigation. Results indicated that a number of variables influenced the likelihood of cases resulting in a conclusive outcome. These included not only the characteristics of alleged victims, but also elements of safeguarding practice, including inter-agency co-operation, social workers' pre-existing knowledge of the alleged victim, and the convening of safeguarding plan meetings. A failure to actively involve alleged victims in the safeguarding process was also noted. The authors concluded that the findings are likely to be of value to professionals seeking to understand what works in managing investigations following safeguarding alerts.
Human rights and social wrongs: issues in safeguarding adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- FYSON Rachel, KITSON Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 22(5), December 2010, pp.309-320.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
From a human rights perspective, this article explores the levels of abuse and bullying of adults with learning disabilities in the UK. It quotes statistics from a decade of reports from Leonard Cheshire Disability, Mind, the Disability Rights Commission and Capability Scotland and Mencap and reproduces Articles 3 and 8 from the European Convention on Human Rights, active in the UK since 1998. In two sections addressing human rights, adult safeguarding and service responses, the size of the challenge is illustrated through a large, but not exhaustive, nationwide listing of murders and manslaughters of people with learning disabilities, between 2005 and 2010. The authors call these the ultimate consequence of society’s collective failure to uphold human rights of people with learning disabilities and claim three commonalities underpinning practice. Firstly, the promotion of independence and choice without adequate consideration of safeguarding; placement without regard for community dynamics; and the roles loneliness, companionship needs and social isolation, play in vulnerable adults likelihood of abuse, particularly in those with milder learning disabilities and lower support needs.
Independence or protection – does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse of people with learning disabilities in Cornwall
- Authors:
- FYSON Rachel, KITSON Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 27(3), August 2007, pp.426-436.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This commentary uses recent events in Cornwall to highlight the ongoing abuse of adults with learning disabilities in England. It critically explores how two parallel policy agendas - the promotion of choice and independence for adults with learning disabilities and the development of adult protection policies - have failed to connect, thus allowing abuse to continue to flourish. It is argued that the abuse of people with learning disabilities can only be minimized by policies that reflect an understanding that choice and independence must necessarily be mediated by effective adult protection measures. Such protection needs to include not only an appropriate regulatory framework, access to justice and well-qualified staff, but also a more critical and reflective approach to the current orthodoxy that promotes choice and independence as the only acceptable goals for any person with a learning disability.
Facing the possibility: supporting managers in preventing and handling abuse allegations against staff
- Authors:
- BAILEY Gill, KITSON Deborah
- Publisher:
- Association for Residential Care
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 159p.
- Place of publication:
- Chesterfield
Abuse of people with a learning disability can occur by members of staff in residential services. This book informs staff of residential services the risks and provides staff training, information and advice. In particular it examines prevention measures for such abuse.
Victims of complacency?
- Authors:
- CALCRAFT Rebecca, KITSON Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.06.03, 2003, pp.38-40.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A number of Labour initiatives have aimed to protect vulnerable adults from abuse. The authors review Labour's policies and legislative initiatives and assesses progress to date.
Green light for guidelines
- Authors:
- CRAFT Ann, KITSON Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.4.94, 1994, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Nottinghamshire has formulated and introduced procedural guidelines for adults with learning difficulties who, it is suspected, are being abused. Looks at how effective the guidelines have been.