...Sally Ka-Wing Lo; Hiromi Tanaka; Chui Man Pak; Ming Sum Tsui Purpose This paper aims to examine the development of carer policies and protections in Hong Kong, emphasising the need to incorporate international practices in adult protection. It provides a substantial review of related legislations...

...; and one homicide was an amicicide. DHRs recommended improvements in: information management/multi-agency working (83%); targeted domestic abuse training (67%); developing/abiding by policies (67%); enhancing professional practice (54%); improved domestic abuse risk and carers assessments (50%). EDI...

...Amanda Warburton-Wynn Purpose 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. Design/methodology/approach...

... work to consider its utility in assessing carers involved in adult safeguarding referrals. This paper reports on a small pilot study which sought to inform the adaptation of this framework for use in adult safeguarding. This paper is based on a qualitative study involving 11 semi-structured telephone...

...Amanda Warburton-Wynn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the issue of carers as victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse. The issue of carers as victims, and sometimes perpetrators, of domestic abuse is being overlooked by statutory organisations because they often do not fit...

... Neary, a young man with autism, for nearly a year in a “positive behaviour unit” under a series of DoLS applications, against the wishes of his father/carer, Mark Neary. The High Court judge found that the Council had made no attempt at the outset nor subsequently to carry out a genuinely balanced best...

..., impossible to meet. Abuse Safeguarding Vulnerable adults Intellectual disability Disabilities Carers This paper has been written to consider what can be learned from the occasional, but very shocking cases in which parents of disabled adults kill their disabled sons and daughters. It explores...

... highlights that simplistic dichotomies between victim and perpetrator can ignore the complexity of the interactions in which safeguarding occurs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Traumatic brain injury Safeguarding Social work Carers VIEW Policy and practice PE ER·RE paper ED...

...Claudine McCreadie This paper provides a commentary on research outcomes in the field of elder abuse and challenges assumptions about older people, carers, vulnerability and risk. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Elder abuse Policy Prevention Carers VIEW ED Policy PE ER·RE review A review...