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Hoarding: a report into best practice
- Author:
- MAGOS Norbert
- Publisher:
- Foundations
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 33
- Place of publication:
- Glossop
This report sets out to explore why hoarding should be an issue for local authorities, how they could respond to the needs of hoarders and how to support the development of good practise in the delivery of housing-focused services for people with a hoarding tendency. As this research demonstrates, hoarding is a complex issue resulting from an underlying mental health condition but with potentially widespread impacts. A multi-agency, multi-level response is therefore required to provide an effective response. Key elements of an effective hoarding service include: a specialised hoarding service with a dedicated caseworker coordinating the approach; funding for decluttering, preferably delivered by a specialised hoarding company; ongoing support to prevent relapses, for example the provision of CBT, group therapy or peer support; established referral networks and well-maintained partnerships; close cooperation with enforcement services, the NHS, Fire Services; and a local hoarding protocol setting out the steps of intervention and eligibility for services. (Edited publisher abstract)
There to help 2: ensuring provision of appropriate adults for vulnerable adults detained or interviewed by police
- Author:
- BATH Chris
- Publisher:
- National Appropriate Adult Network
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 115
- Place of publication:
- Ashford
Based on Freedom of Information Act requests to police forces in England and Wales, this report provides an updated on the need for, and access to, appropriate adults (AA) for vulnerable adults in police custody. Vulnerable adults may have a mental illness, learning disability, brain injury or autism. The report provides information on: the identification of need for an AA amongst adult suspects; the application of the AA safeguard (the extent to which vulnerable adult suspects actually receive the support of an AA); and the availability of organised AA provision in England and Wales. Based on police figures, the report finds that in the 12 months ending 31st March 2018 at least 111,445 police detentions and voluntary interviews of vulnerable adult suspects were carried out without the support of an 'appropriate adult'. It also found that where police had no access to an organised AA scheme, they were half as likely to record an adult as needing one. Despite being a key recommendation of There to Help (2015), local authorities are only legally required to run schemes for children, not for vulnerable adults. The report makes a number of recommendations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Integrating social services for vulnerable groups: bridging sectors for better service delivery
- Author:
- ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Publisher:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 212
- Place of publication:
- Paris
This book looks at the ways in which governments design and deliver integrated social services to vulnerable groups and the opportunities and challenges this brings. Although the needs of vulnerable families, children and youth with mental health issues, the homeless, and the frail elderly can vary widely, the challenges government face when delivering multiple social supports to these groups are often similar. For each vulnerable group, the book addresses questions like: How are social services being integrated? How are vulnerable groups defined in different countries and how do populations compare? Why integrate service for vulnerable groups? The book highlights pathways towards successful integration practices, and summarises the evidence on good practice and promising common practices from across all of the vulnerable groups. (Edited publisher abstract)
From pillar to post
- Author:
- WATERS Matthew
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 3(2), June 2000, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Shelter recently published a report, 'From pillar to post: failing to meet the support and housing needs of vulnerable people', which showed just how important it is that agencies work closely together. A survey of Shelter's network of housing aid centres and projects found that housing and social services departments are failing to work together, and the needs of service users are not being met. Argues that guidance to local authorities encouraging departments to work together is not enough; a new duty on local authorities is needed.
Supporting people with multiple impairments
- Author:
- MATTINGLY Roger
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 68p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This monograph summarises the work and conclusions of an exploration into services supporting adults living in the community who have two or more significant impairments. It found that people with multiple impairments are on the margin of service structures and provision,. No professional group has responsibility for meeting their needs comprehensively. Consequently the support is not available, provision inadequate and funding is poorly negotiated between agencies.
Implementing adult protection policies in Kent and East Sussex
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 27(3), July 1998, pp.371-396.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Reports on the extent and nature of adult protection cases dealt with by two social services departments during a twelve month period in 1995-6, within the framework of newly revised generic policies on abuse of vulnerable adults. The two counties varied in the level of reporting documented and in the number of cases logged for individuals who fall within the main four groups of 'vulnerable adults' covered by the policies. Arguments for consistent reporting are set out and the tension which exists between formal and informal approaches to the subsequent investigation of abuse discussed with reference to American vulnerable adult statutes.
Round pegs in round holes: a social work care management service for 'vulnerable adults' in West Oxfordshire
- Author:
- GILDERS Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(3), 1997, pp.45-58.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Adults at risk: procedural guidelines for professionals in relation to people with physical or sensory disability, mental illness, or learning difficulties (mental handicap)
- Author:
- GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Gloucestershire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 28p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Gloucester
Describes action to be taken when vulnerable adults, living in the community, are found to be living in circumstances which present an unacceptable level of danger and co-ordinated intervention by caring agencies is necessary.