Policy Development
Policy Development Work
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No Secrets
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Preventing the financial abuse of vulnerable adults
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Council of Europe
Evaluating the Implementation of No Secrets
Launched in March 2000 by the Department of Health this policy document requires social services departments to produce guidelines on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse. It is addressed to health and social care service agencies as well as appropriate criminal justice agencies. Salomons in collaboration with King's College, London and University of Wolverhampton, each with extensive experience of research in adult abuse, have been funded by the Nuffield Foundation to collaborate in carrying out an evaluation of the implementation of No Secrets.
Following a comprehensive survey members of the research team are visiting ten key sites collecting data using a variety of methods, including interviews with key personnel, and an examination of relevant documents. A report will be written together with a 'findings' summary.
'No Secrets' can be downloaded from the address below:
www.doh.gov.uk/scg/nosecrets.htm|
Preventing Financial Abuse of Vulnerable Adults
This project is part of a programme of work on issues of protection of vulnerable adults from different forms of abuse and exploitation. The PGO is constituted to protect the interests of vulnerable adults from financial abuse insofar as it manages the assets and financial affairs of people unable to do so themselves and it is also responsible for monitoring the arrangements that are set in place in case appointed persons are neglectful or corrupted. This project aims to identify the risks and explore the safeguards, which are needed to prevent the deliberate misappropriation of clients' funds and to examine the overlaps with more generic adult protection procedures currently co-ordinated by social services.
Further work for the PGO has mapped the potential workload if health and welfare decisions come within its remit under proposed Mental Incapacity Legislation.
Link: www.guardianship.gov.uk |
Evaluating the Implementation of No Secrets
Professor Hilary Brown has recently completed a report for the Council of Europe called Safeguarding Adults and Children with Disabilities Against Abuse which sets out a strategy for the prevention of a broad range of abuse and mistreatment against people with physical, intellectual and mental health disabilities across all member states of Europe and which promotes proactive anti-discriminatory practice. In further consultancy work for the Council she produced an overview of all its recent initiatives on violence against vulnerable groups and attended the recent Ministerial Conference in Malaga to discuss the direction of disability policy across Europe.
Council of Europe |web site.