Safeguarding carers: literature review on what is known about carers who are abused by the people they provide care for
Ann Anka, Bridget Penhale The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this paper is to provide a literature review on what is known about unpaid family carers who are at risk of or have experienced abuse from the people they provide care for and relevant policy/legal and practice responses for affected family carers.A literature search was carried out to locate literature relating to unpaid family carers who are at risk of or have experienced abuse from the people they provide care for. This also incorporated grey literature, including policy guidance and law, to determine...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ann Anka Bridget Penhale Source Type: research
Young People, Stalking Awareness and Domestic Abuse. Edited by Maria Mellins, Rachael Wheatley and Caroline Flowers
Bridget Penhale, Ian Cummins, Vernando Yanry Lameky The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp.54-55 (Source: The Journal of Adult Protection)
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - April 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bridget Penhale Ian Cummins Vernando Yanry Lameky Source Type: research
Editorial
Bridget Penhale, Ian Cummins The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp.1-6 (Source: The Journal of Adult Protection)
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - April 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bridget Penhale Ian Cummins Source Type: research
The benefits of using a Shared Lives type community response to support survivors of domestic abuse with disabilities and older survivors
Amanda Warburton-Wynn The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to introduce the concept of using the well-established Shared Lives approach to support survivors of domestic abuse with complex needs including those with learning and physical disabilities, older people and carers.Survivors with complex needs are often excluded from traditional domestic abuse support services thus increasing their risk and making recovery impossible. Using the Shared Lives approach in suitable cases could address gaps in provision and improve the outcomes for survivors with disabilities, ...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - April 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Amanda Warburton-Wynn Source Type: research
“Whose safeguarding is it anyway?” service user engagement in safeguarding processes
This study aims to highlight that it is both possible and desirable to engage fully with service users using a range of simple communication tools. For this to be implemented as routine practice in services providing support for people with intellectual disabilities, authentic leadership is required. Services will need to devote time, human resources and will need champions to get on board with the necessary culture shift.Qualitative research examined peoples’ “lived experiences” and knowledge of safeguarding. Focus groups were used with thematic analysis highlighting common themes throughout, as guided by Braun and ...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - March 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sarah Mahon Laura O'Neill Rachel Boland Source Type: research
Safeguarding adults within institutional settings: a narrative overview of the literature focused on the care of people with mental ill-health and learning difficulties
This study aims to provide a broad perspective of safeguarding practices within institutional care to inform practice and service development in this area.A narrative overview was undertaken of a range of empirical evidence, discussion papers, enquiry reports, reports from regulatory bodies and professional guidance to explore safeguarding practices within institutional care for individuals with learning disabilities and/or mental health conditions.A range of literature was identified that exposed and explored abuse in this context. Three key themes were identified: failings within institutional care; safeguarding issues a...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - March 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lorna Montgomery Adi Cooper Source Type: research
Learning to safeguard: exploring adult safeguarding officers' readiness for online learning and their perceptions of a blended learning safeguarding training programme
Bridget McDaid The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to present commentary on adult safeguarding designated officers’ (nominated senior staff members in the Health Service Executive and its funded services) in Ireland readiness for online learning and their perception of the blended approach used in their training and considers the implications of this for practice.In total, 233 designated officers were surveyed. A self-administered online survey comprising of two instruments was used. The questionnaire combines two previously validated tools measuring readiness f...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - March 23, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bridget McDaid Source Type: research
How to handle the academic literature of sex offenders? A post-publication protection mechanism is needed
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the creation of safe academic (education and research) environments that offer proper protections to adult academics and staff, so that academia and society at large may benefit from the fruits of safe workplaces. Not all academic environments are entirely safe, and there are recorded cases of victims of harassment and sexual abuse.Given that co-workers in a laboratory, or research subjects in a research project, may be victims of harassment or sexual abuse, and that the same...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - February 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva Source Type: research
Financial harm in the context of adult protection: the complexity of factors influencing joint decision-making
Melanie Durowse, Jane Fenton The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This research was conducted as part of a PhD study. The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors taken into consideration when multi-agency practitioners were considering financial harm in the context of adult protection and how this influenced their decision-making processes.An adapted q sort methodology initially established the areas of financial harm considered to have additional factors, which led to complexity in adult protection decision making. These factors were further explored in individual intervi...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - February 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Melanie Durowse Jane Fenton Source Type: research
Restorative justice in safeguarding adults with hate crime and discriminatory abuse: exploring the evidence
Karl Mason, Rosslyn Dray, Jane C. Healy, Joanna Wells The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this paper is to consider what safeguarding responses to discriminatory abuse and hate crime might learn from existing research on restorative justice and to drive practice development based on available evidence.This paper is based on a scoping review of literature using four academic databases and reference harvesting. This comprised a critical appraisal of 30 articles, which were thematically analysed to appreciate the benefits and challenges of restorative justice response...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - February 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Karl Mason Rosslyn Dray Jane C. Healy Joanna Wells Source Type: research
A qualitative study of adult protection procedures: threshold screening of new referrals by designated adult safeguarding practitioners
This study adds to the existing knowledge base, identifies potential service improvements and highlights the gap in evidence-based practice as it applies to the threshold screening process. Threshold screening of adult safeguarding referrals remains a subjective process and is open to interpretation and differences in professional judgement. The study highlights the need to consider the application of quality improvement methodology to the threshold screening assessment and the need to promote the exchange of safeguarding knowledge. (Source: The Journal of Adult Protection)
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - January 10, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Scott Fleming Source Type: research
Preliminary findings on the use of “teaming” in elder abuse intervention: the RISE project
This study represents the first in-depth exploration of teaming in the context of EASN intervention. Preliminary findings on the experiences of advocates suggest that teaming is a beneficial approach to support the individualized needs of each client, and to promote improved and sustainable case outcomes for clients. (Source: The Journal of Adult Protection)
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Andie MacNeil Marie-Therese Connolly Erin Salvo Patricia F. Kimball Geoff Rogers Stuart Lewis David Burnes Source Type: research
Editorial
Bridget Penhale, Margaret Flynn The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp.249-253 (Source: The Journal of Adult Protection)
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - October 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bridget Penhale Margaret Flynn Source Type: research
Exploring the prevalence of loneliness and social isolation in an analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews in South Yorkshire
Louise Jayne Whitehead The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to explore the links between being lonely and isolated, and increased risks of abuse for adults with care and support needs.Thematic analysis was used to explore features of loneliness and social isolation present in South Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) published since 2014.Ten out of fifteen SARs indicated there had been issues of loneliness and/or social isolation for the person who was the subject of the SAR.The limitations of this paper are that it only included SARs from the South Yorksh...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - September 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Louise Jayne Whitehead Source Type: research
Book review
Pete Morgan The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp.244-245 (Source: The Journal of Adult Protection)
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - September 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pete Morgan Source Type: research
