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Figuring out adult abuse
- Authors:
- MCCREADIE Claudine, QUIGLEY Leo
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.2.99, 1999, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As recognition of the prevalence of adult abuse increases, the authors look at the lessons to be drawn from an experiment in Sheffield.
Why is working together so difficult?
- Author:
- QUIGLEY Leo
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 1(2), November 1999, pp.38-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Effective adult protection systems require many agencies with different backgrounds and aims to share a common outlook and agreed procedures. This article analyses recent work in Sheffield to ask why working together is so difficult. Provides an analytic model which can be used by others to examine their own practice and performance.
Screen test
- Author:
- QUIGLEY Leo
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.3.00, 2000, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
To make the best use of services for older people facing abuse, people who may be having difficulties but are not being abused need to be filtered out. The author advises on how to achieve a fair screening system.