Journal of Adult Protection Annual Conference September 19 2001
| Pages | 38-41 |
| Published date | 01 November 2001 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/14668203200100027 |
| Date | 01 November 2001 |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care,Sociology |
38 © Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Limited The Journal of Adult Protection Volume 3 Issue 4 • November 2001
Each year the Journal of Adult Protection organises an annual
conference to highlight developments in policy and practice
and to bring together all those interested in adult abuse issues.
Under the title ‘No Secrets – The Implementation’, this year’s
event took place at Ort House, London, on September 19.
Reviewing
No Secrets
The conference was opened by Hilary Brown who reminded
participants of the backdrop to this major policy document
and the research/practice that had informed the debate so far.
This introductory presentation was followed by a joint session
involving two members of the King’s College, London
University team involved in the Nuffield Foundation-funded
project to monitor No Secrets implementation. Initially,
Claudine McCreadie rehearsed the main elements of No
Secrets that areas are having to tackle (see also her paper ‘No
Secrets: guidance in England for the protection of vulnerable
adults’ in the Journal of Adult Protection, volume 2, issue 3,
September 2000).
Dinah Mathews then followed this by setting out the first
results from the Nuffield project. This project, stretching over
three years, started by surveying all English local authorities
about their progress in the summer of 2001 and, based on a
79 per cent response (N = 119), found that:
■95 per cent of authorities either have or are working on a
vulnerable adults abuse policy, with 31 per cent of these
documents being multi-agency-based
■28 per cent of authorities have established an adult
protection officer post, the majority in the last 18 months;
very few authorities (13 per cent) have any other dedicated
adult protection posts
■93 per cent of areas have in place or are planning to
establish a multi-agency committee to manage/oversee
strategy and services.
Further details of this research and its preliminary findings
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