Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults

Working Effectively in Adult Protection

Jacki Pritchard

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2008
• ISBN:
  9781846428258
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection.

The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative models of practice such as criminal justice and welfare, and covers groups who may be overlooked, such as people with brain injuries, older prisoners and adults within the black and minority ethnic communities. Issues covered include domestic violence and honour-based crime, abuse in institutions, financial abuse, and risk assessment in adult protection. The book is illustrated throughout with case studies, and also gives a voice to the victims of adult abuse who can be forgotten in a working environment that emphasises target performance, indicators, standards, star ratings, paperwork and correct use of terminology.

This book will be essential reading for anyone working with vulnerable adults, including social workers, care managers, care workers, health care staff, police, probation officers, staff within the prison system, advocates, volunteers, training officers and students.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also in the series
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 No Secrets, Safeguarding Adults and Adult Protection
• 2 ‘Millstone to Mainstream’ The Development of Vulnerable Adult Policy in North Wales
• 3 Two Years in the Life of an Adult Protection Coordinator
• 4 Domestic Violence and Honour-Based Crime Joined-up Governance and an Islamic Approach
• 5 Elder Abuse and Black and Minority Ethnic Communities Lessons for Good Practice
• 6 The Role of the Commission for Social Care Inspection
• 7 The Abuse in Institutions and the Resulting Inquiries
• 8 Older Adults in Prison Vulnerability, Abuse and Neglect
• 9 Brain Injury, Case Management and Financial Abuse A Complex Affair
• 10 Using the Mental Capacity Act to Protect Vulnerable Adults
• 11 Doing Risk Assessment Properly in Adult Protection Work
• 12 Survivors Explain Healing Through Group Work
• The Contributors
• Subject Index
• Author Index