Weighing the evidence: a case for using vignettes to elicit public and practitioner views of the workings of the POVA vetting and barring scheme
| Published date | 01 May 2008 |
| Date | 01 May 2008 |
| Pages | 6-17 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/14668203200800008 |
| Author | Joan Rapaport,Martin Stevens,Jill Manthorpe,Shereen Hussein,Jess Harris,Stephen Martineau |
6© Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Limited The Journal of Adult Protection Volume 10 Issue 2 • May 2008
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Introduction
Improving safeguards to protect vulnerable adults from abuse
and increasing public confidence in social care have been
government priorities in England and Wales. They led, in
2004, in the case of social care services for adults, to the
setting up of a nationally unique vetting and barring register,
the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list as described
in this journal in 2006 (Manthorpe & Stevens, 2006). The
POVA list is being revised by the Independent Safeguarding
Authority in 2008, established by the Safeguarding Adults Act
2006, which joins together the vetting and barring lists in
operation for other practitioners working with children and
extends these lists from social care and education sectors to
the health sector (Cornes et al, 2007).
The POVA list was introduced as part of the
implementation of the Care Standards Act (2000). Referrals to
the list are made in the main by employers registered under
the Care Standards Act or by the social care regulator. These
are investigated by a civil service team (referred to as the
POVA team in this article) based at the Department for
Children, Schools and Families (formerly Department for
Weighing the evidence:a case
for using vignettes to elicit
public and practitioner views
of the workings of the POVA
vetting and barring schemeJoan Rapaport
Martin Stevens
Jill Manthorpe
Shereen Hussein
Jess Harris
Stephen Martineau
Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s
College London
Policy paper
key words
adult protection, vetting, barring,
abuse, decision-making, vignette
abstract
This article describes research
investigating the steps involved in
recommending to the Secretary of
State for Health whether a care
worker should be included on the
Protection of Vulnerable Adults
(POVA) list, which records
individuals barred from working and
volunteering with vulnerable adults
in England and Wales.
The aims of the study were
to investigate patterns of referrals to
the list; factors associated with the
collection of evidence to present to
the Minister and to detail the
operation of the list.
The article focuses on the
preliminary part of the research that
covered discussion groups with
purposive sample of older people,
managers and staff during which a
vignette approach was used to
explore their perspectives.
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