...Teresa Cronin; Anita Duffy Purpose This paper aims to present the findings of an audit conducted to assess the knowledge, confidence and training needs of community nurses in the mid-west region of Ireland concerning adult safeguarding practices. Safeguarding adults in community settings requires...

... and effectiveness of adult safeguarding services. This might be done through analysis and interrogation of data, and the use of self-audits and peer review. Integral to this oversight and improvement agenda is the development of collaboration, monitoring progress against stated intentions through annual reports...

... partnerships across the country; would be developed as a collaborative venture; would be developed by building on and adapting existing auditing tools/procedures, including work in child protection; would be comprehensive with respect to undertaking a self‐evaluation and the scope of the evaluative criteria...