Analysis of adult protection data can identify risk patterns for vulnerable...
This study looked at the adult protection monitoring data collected by two local authorities comparing referrals for alleged sexual abuse to referrals for other types of abuse. The authors found that...
View ArticlePreventing abuse in the social care system SCIE report
A new report published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence shares findings from research, policy and practice on prevention in adult safeguarding and presents a wide range of approaches that...
View ArticleBMA publishes guidance to help doctors protect vulnerable adults
New guidance has been published by the British Medical Association in the form of a toolkit for GPs to provide practical advice on promoting and protecting the wellbeing of vulnerable adults. Although...
View ArticleNearly a quarter of referrals to adult safeguarding in 2010 11 concerned...
The information centre for health and social care regularly publishes statistics based on returns from authorities in England. This report shows a provisional analysis from returns by Council with...
View ArticleInclusive research project on adult protection recommends more creative...
In 2006, the Department of Health produced a report called ‘Let Me I’m a Researcher’, which was designed to inform the debate about best practice in working with people with disabilities to co-produce...
View ArticleAdult safeguarding guide produced to support family carers of people with...
As you know, we at Elf towers are committed to making research evidence available in a way that helps people who support people with learning disabilities to be evidence based. However, as well as...
View ArticleAdult Protection research suggests there is still much to do in response to...
The events at Winterbourne View assessment and treatment service, where the BBC Panorama programme uncovered systematic abuse of people with learning disabilities, has led to a serious case review...
View ArticleReview of adult protection in Scotland suggest high proportion of ‘no further...
Background Adult safeguarding in Scotland is subject to legislation passed in 2007, known as the adult Support and Protection Act it gives social workers the right to enter any place if part of adult...
View ArticleSurvey of abuse of people with learning disabilities challenges view that...
Today, we feature the debut blog of Professor Ruth Northway, who reflects on the implications of a paper which retrospective study looking at levels and types of abuse disclosed by people with learning...
View ArticleEmpirical research to underpin developments in adult safeguarding still...
Local authorities have the responsibility for the organisation of adult safeguarding in England. Here Ruth Northway looks at a literature review of the organisation of adult safeguarding services which...
View ArticlePreventing and responding to violence against disabled people – what works?
Professor Jill Manthorpe begins 2015 with a blog considering a systematic review on interventions to prevent and respond to violence against disabled people. She reflects on how social workers use...
View ArticleModels of adult safeguarding: what works best?
Lindsey Pike gives us a sneak preview of a forthcoming research paper on models of adult safeguarding in England and weighs up what the findings mean for the current policy and practice context. The...
View ArticleSelf-neglect and safeguarding: indicators for good practice
Jill Manthorpe follows up her previous blog on self-neglect and safeguarding by looking at a related paper on good practice indicators from serious case reviews. The post Self-neglect and safeguarding:...
View ArticleOn each others’ team? Multi-agency work in safeguarding children
In this blog, Lindsey Pike examines research on multi-agency working in safeguarding children and draws out some of the practice implications of the findings. The post On each others’ team?...
View ArticleCQC State of Care Report and research for quality improvement: Elves mine the...
Sarah Carr takes a look at CQC's State of Adult Social Care Report 2014/15 and corrals the elves in to mine the Social Care Elf archive for some research blogs to help adults social care providers...
View ArticleAccess to justice for victims and survivors of elder abuse
Jill Manthorpe looks at a study on access to justice for victims of elder abuse and considers the implications for adult safeguarding practice and the implementation of Making Safeguarding Personal...
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