Article in August 2007 on linking education and practice
| Pages | 6-6 |
| Date | 01 February 2008 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/14668203200800002 |
| Published date | 01 February 2008 |
| Author | Linda Naylor |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care,Sociology |
6©Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Limited The Journal of Adult Protection Volume 10 Issue 1 • February 2008
Ienjoy the Journal of Adult Protection and find it stimulates
my work as an independent trainer in this field.
Iwanted to make some comments on the article in the
August 2007 edition called ‘Linking education and practice:
working together to protect vulnerable adults in Cardiff’.
This was a useful viewpoint and other writers contributed
with their comments. Much of the article was very familiar –
low turnout and problems of refresher training probably
plague us all round the country. However, I wanted to pick
up some unhelpful assumptions about investigation training.
The article says that provider organisations wereunsurewhere
to begin POVAinvestigations and the quality of investigations
were varied. It also mentions a non-criminal POVA
investigation tool that was shared with registered providers.
The assumption that provider agencies should be involved
in investigating adult protection is an assumption that is
increasingly being challenged. The Cornwall investigation
highlighted the difficulties of managers doing their own
investigations. Increasingly, the validity of such internal
investigations will start by a referral to social services and
then a strategy meeting will decide who does what. It is
unwise for decisions to be made that an investigation is not
criminal without consulting the police particularly in the
light of new offences (eg. wilful neglect under the Mental
Capacity Act). Giving provider managers a tool to do their
own investigations seems contrary to good practice and I
was disappointed this was not picked up by any of the
commentaries on the contribution.
Yours sincerely,
Linda Naylor
Article in August 2007
on linking education
and practice
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