Recommendations into practice: implementing the results of local research into adult protection
| Published date | 01 April 2004 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/14668203200400004 |
| Date | 01 April 2004 |
| Pages | 20-26 |
| Author | Karen Dodd,Louise Lamb |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care,Sociology |
Karen Dodd
Head of Psychology, Surrey Oaklands NHS Trust
Louise Lamb
Adult Protection Co-ordinator, Surrey Adult and
Community Care
key word
adult protection
20 © Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Limited The Journal of Adult Protection Volume 6 Issue 1 • April 2004
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Research paper
abstract
A research study carried out in
Surrey to look at staff knowledge of
and attitudes towards adult
protection highlighted issues that
may underpin the reasons for low
levels of reported abuse with
particular service user groups.This
article looks at how the Surrey Adult
Protection Committee has dealt
with the recommendations of the
research.
Development of adult protection in Surrey
In July 1996 representatives from Surrey Social Services
(now known as Adult and Community Care) attended a
conference entitled ‘Planning a Response’. The resulting
action plan included the formation of the Surrey
Interagency Working Group, which consisted of all the key
stakeholders in adult protection within Surrey. The first
year of the group was spent gathering information from
current research and considering those procedures already
in place in other counties and boroughs.
In December 1997 a small working group of six people
taken from representatives of the wider group was charged
with the task of writing the multi-agency procedures for
Surrey. By October 1998, not only was the consultation on
the draft document complete and responses incorporated
into the document, but Surrey had appointed an adult
protection co-ordinator to work on the development and
implementation of its adult protection strategy.
The original procedures were launched in December
1998 and have since been revised following the publication
of No Secrets (Department of Health, 2000).
The Adult Protection Committee was formed in March
1999 and a number of sub groups of the committee were
formed. The original structure is shown in Figure 1.
Over the past year, 15 case files have been selected at
random and audited by the Case Audit Group against
standards set out in Recording with Care (Department of
Health, 1999) for adult protection and against Surrey’s
multi-agency procedures. Recommendations from the Case
Recommendations into
practice: implementing the
results of local research into
adult protection
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