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National Adult Protective Services Resource Center, 2012. "Adult Protective Services in 2012: Increasingly Vulnerable." Este, Stephen, 2007. "The Challenges of Accountability in the Human Services: Performance Management in the Adult Protective Services Program of Texas" (2007). Applied Research Projects. Texas State University Paper 250.
The aim of the MASH is to bring together all the agencies involved in safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children. This can be when they are victims of domestic abuse, neglect, criminal exploitation of labour, sexual exploitation, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, or any other (normally illegal) act that places them at ongoing risk of harm.
However, in 2011, Keele University developed a master's degree in Adult Safeguarding. The MA in Safeguarding Adults: Law, Policy and Practice [4] is offered by the School of Law. A similar such course of study is provided by the Ulster University, in partnership with the Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland.
There were also repeated referrals to safeguarding services, children's social care and adolescent mental health services and a referral to the youth offending team after Rudakubana's conviction ...
Repeated referrals to safeguarding services, children's social care and adolescent mental health services. A referral to the youth offending team after Rudakubana's conviction for a violent ...
The Department of Justice defines this as "an adult who is unable to receive and evaluate information or make or communicate informed decisions to such an extent that the adult lacks the ability to meet essential requirements for physical health, safety or self-care, even with reasonably available appropriate technological assistance" (Civil ...
The Care Act 2014 introduced new legislation regarding safeguarding vulnerable adults. [16] Increasingly, the terms adult at risk, or adult at risk of harm, [17] are preferred to the term vulnerable adult. [18] The Care Act sets out a legal framework for how local authorities and other organisations should react to suspicion of abuse or neglect ...
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO), legally the Commission for Local Administration in England and formerly known as the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO), investigates complaints from members of the public about councils and some other some other authorities and organisations providing public services in England. [2]