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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.
Time for Action
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 24, November 2002, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Reports on a cascade training programme developed by Action on Elder Abuse to enable organisations to train frontline staff and volunteers to detect signs of elder abuse.
Adult attachment theory and its contribution to an understanding of conflict and abuse in later-life relationships
- Author:
- SHEMMINGS David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 2(3), September 2000, pp.40-49.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article considers some of the implications of research findings into relational conflict and couple violence and suggests links with elder abuse. An outline of a research design to study elder abuse from an attachment perspective is discussed.
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.
Inter-agency policy and procedures relating to abuse of vulnerable adults
- Author:
- KNOWSLEY. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Knowsley. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Kirkby
Policy and procedure document applying to all agencies in Knowsley working with vulnerable adults who may be at risk of abuse. Provides a framework for those involved to respond. Intended as a guide to staff to ensure a consistent response so that the various agencies involved work together.
Monitoring adult protection referrals in 10 English local authorities
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 2(3), September 2000, pp.19-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper reports the results of a study of the monitoring of adult protection referrals in 10 local authorities during six months in 1998.The information provides a useful window on the effectiveness of current policies and provides a baseline from which to anticipate the implications for workload and service planning of recent government guidance.
Can we help you?
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.7.00, 2000, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Some clients refuse to accept help. Yet social services are still blamed when a crisis results. The author unpicks some of the legal, ethical and practice issues.
The common enemy
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, SANGAR Vinay, SIMPSON Liz, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.5.96, 1996, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Working in conjunction is the only way to ensure protection from various types of abuse for vulnerable adults. Kent and East Sussex social services departments are taking a lead in developing practice to improve recognition of adult abuse and responses to it. Now the two departments are working with a small group of researchers at Kent's Tizard Centre, to establish just how effective the policy has been.