Protecting Children and Adults from Abuse After Savile
Marcus Erooga, author of Protecting Children and Adults from Abuse After Savile and former Chair of NOTA, discusses the impact of the Jimmy Savile case in causing a…
Tag: adult protection
Relationship-Based Social Work, Second Edition
Gillian Ruch, Danielle Turney and Adrian Ward have updated and revised Relationship-Based Social Work – the highly successful guide to relationship-based practice in social work. Gillian…
Safeguarding adults after Mid Staffordshire Inquiry
In this article Michael Mandelstam, author of new book Safeguarding Adults and the Law looks at why the continuing abuse and neglect of adults in…
Risk Assessment and Management for Living Well with Dementia – An Interview with author Charlotte Clarke
“People with dementia continue to have decisions about them made by other people who bring to that decision their own views of safety and risk – these can be very profound decisions such as where someone will live in the future. It continues to be essential to develop services that respect the views of people living with dementia so that the care they receive is of high quality (and this is not necessarily care that is ‘risk free’).”
Good record-keeping matters: An excerpt from Jacki Pritchard’s ‘Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults’
“We know that most workers are under extreme pressure with ever increasing workloads and there can be a reluctance to give recording the priority it deserves. Increasing workloads can be partly due to a lack of resources. It is important that people in positions of power argue for an increase in resources, but to do that arguments have to be put forward that there is a real need. Keeping good records can aid this.”
Providing Good Care at Night for Older People – An Interview with JKP author Diana Kerr
“Night staff have to provide the same level of person centred, individualised care as day staff. Their primary task is seen as the promotion of sleep. This can often mean that they feel compelled to get people back to bed as quickly as possible. Often, however, residents need, time, food, activity, and TLC as well as an opportunity to talk and discuss, particularly their fears and worries.”
Exploring Bullying with Adults with Autism and Asperger Syndrome: An Interview with authors Anna Tickle and Bettina Stott
Exploring Bullying with Adults with Autism and Asperger Syndrome is the new workbook by Anna Tickle, a clinical psychologist, and Bettina Stott, who after many…
CYPNow article by JKP author Gillian Ruch: Time to put relationship building back at the heart of social work
Children & Young People Now have featured a great article from JKP author, Dr Gillian Ruch, in which she argues that a focus on improving…
Danielle Turney on Relationship-Based Social Work
‘Placing the relationship at the heart of practice means recognising that, as we suggest in the Introduction, ”despite all the continuing upheavals in policy and procedure, social work [will] always begin and end with a human encounter between two or more people” and that this encounter, or relationship as it develops, is the medium through which the social work task can be carried out. Social work is never a neutral activity but can, at its best, offer a vulnerable or distressed person the experience of being valued, supported and understood – perhaps for the first time.’
Hilary Abrahams looks at long-term outcomes of survivors of domestic violence
Hilary Abrahams is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Violence Against Women Research Group at the University of Bristol. She has worked extensively on the support…