Evidencing good practice in adult protection: informing the protection of people with learning disabilities from abuse
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/14668203200500010 |
| Published date | 01 August 2005 |
| Pages | 28-36 |
| Date | 01 August 2005 |
| Author | Ruth Northway,Rachel Davies,Robert Jenkins,Ian Mansell |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care,Sociology |
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Policy and practice overview
28 ©Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Limited The Journal of Adult Protection Volume 7 Issue 2 • August 2005
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abstract
The challenge of evidencing good practice
The growing field of adult protection deserves to have high
quality research and theoretical underpinning to inform its
policy development and practice. Policy makers and
practitioners should feel confident that their activities are the
most appropriate for the circumstances and that they are well
informed. Unfortunately, adult protection policy and practice,
to date, has not been developed from a strong and substantive
research basis. Thereareseveral reasons why this is the case
and these need to be considered in order to understand the
context in which the field of adult protection has developed.
First, adult protection does not have a history of research
interest. The vast majority of adult protection research was
conducted from the late 1980s onwards at the same time as
the momentum began for policy and practice initiatives. Adult
protection spans so many areas of health and social care
activity that there was clearly earlier research that had
Evidencing good practice in
adult protection: informing
the protection of people
with learning disabilities
from abuse Professor Ruth Northway
Head of Unit for Development in Intellectual
Disabilities (UDID)
Dr Rachel Davies
Research Fellow
Robert Jenkins
Principal Lecturer
Ian Mansell
Principal Lecturer
School of Care Sciences, University of
Glamorgan
good practice
adult protection
learning disabilities
abuse
policy
practice
The importance and challenges
in providing a good practice
evidence base for adult protection
are outlined. The literature search,
review and mapping exercise that
formed part of the
Abuse of Adults
with Learning Disabilities: Policy,
Practice and Educational Implications
in Wales
research study is detailed.
The article presents examples from
this evidence mapping exercise and
considers the importance of adult
protection research to the future
development of policy and practice.
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