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Good practice in safeguarding adults : working effectively in adult protection / edited by Jacki Pritchard.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Good practice in health, social care and criminal justice.
- Good practice in health, social care and criminal justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abused men--Services for--Great Britain.
- Abused men.
- Abused women--Services for--Great Britain.
- Abused women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- FRONT COVER; GOOD PRACTICE in Safeguarding Adults:Working Effectively in Adult Protection; Contents; Introduction; 1 No Secrets, Safeguarding Adults and Adult Protection; 2 'Millstone to Mainstream': The Development of Vulnerable Adult Policy in NorthWales; 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; 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 Neglect9 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; List of Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611782535
- 9781281782533
- 128178253X
- 9781846428258
- 1846428254
- OCLC:
- 290921234
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