...Sarah Vaughan; Andrew Miles; Kevin Dionisio Hochard; Lisa Oakley; Moira Lafferty; George Hales; Paul Kingston Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore and map Safeguarding Adults England data for 2022–2023 by local authority to enable identification and exploration of any differences...

...). Safeguarding Personalization Care Act 2014 Local authorities Making safeguarding personal Safeguarding policy © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 In 2013/2014 the programme was extended and an e-mail was sent to all Directors of Adult Social Services in England to invite them...

... was accessed for content analysis covering the period 2009-2011. One part of this sample of local authorities was selected at random; the other authorities selected had been early adopters of personalisation. The reports were analysed using a pro forma to collect salient information on personalisation...

...David Hewitt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report and analyse a recent case, in which the safeguarding procedure adopted by one local authority was criticised by the High Court. It also seeks to identify the key lessons to be learned. Design/methodology/approach The paper considers...

...Rachel Fyson; Deborah Kitson Purpose This paper seeks to report some of the findings from an evaluation of adult safeguarding in one English local authority. The evaluation was commissioned in the context of concern regarding the number of safeguarding investigations that resulted in inconclusive...

... decisions with regard to safeguarding – and not to have all of the decisions made for them in an overly protective or risk‐averse approach to safeguarding. It is recommended that local authorities consider risk enablement for service users as a parallel process to adult safeguarding. Practical...

...Helen Thacker Purpose This paper aims to respond to the findings of the initial phase of the Safeguarding Adults Programme (November 2009‐March 2010), which found an unexpected inverse relationship between referral rate for safeguarding adults and population size of local authority in the data...

..., 2000). Introducing reporting to local authority social services and adult protection co‐ordination raised various issues. VIEW Research PE ER·RE paper ED Adult protection cases in a hospice: an audit Malcolm Payne Emeritus Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University and Director, Psycho-social...

...Hilary Brown; June Stein This paper reports the results of a study of the monitoring of adult protection referrals in 10 local authorities during six months in 1998. The issues are analysed at various levels. The information provides a useful window on the effectiveness of current policies...