CRB Checks for volunteers -guidance just published – click the link for easily readable booklet.
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CRB: Checks for volunteers……new guidelines.
Posted in Abuse, Care, Management, News, tagged Add new tag, Care on August 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“No secrets?”. POVA. A statutory future?
Posted in Abuse, News, No Secrets on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just what responsibilities does the POVA requirements lay on you and your workforce? The situation seems increasingly muddied as the POVA requirments are laid against the child protection statutory requirements. And then there are legal challenges to the limits of POVA intervention and it’s link with child and adlolecent services. After al,l vulnerable adult often have [...]
Survey finds 4% of older people in Britain are victims of abuse.
Posted in Abuse, Care, NVQ care, News, Training, Uncategorized on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This news is a month old now but well worth noting especially if you work in the community.
At least 340,000 older people are being abused in their own homes by family, friends or neighbours, ministers acknowledged yesterday. The first thorough survey of elder abuse in Britain found 4% of people over 66 are victims of [...]
Equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory principles.
Posted in Abuse, Anti-discrimination, Care, Dignity challenge, Equal opportunities, Leadership, Management, Training on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What is equality?
Equity of Care: Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographical location and socio-economic status.
Equality means providing services and employing people in equal ways. This concerns equality of opportunity, equality of access and equality of participation. Sometimes additional services and positive action are [...]
Safeguarding vulnerable adults – new knowledge set.
Posted in Abuse, Care, Learning, Management, Training, Uncategorized on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Skills for care’ do a great job of making the learning requirements for key care issues available to all. Go to the site for full details.
Knowledge sets for adult social care (Sills for care)- are designed to improve consistency in the underpinning knowledge learnt by the adult social care workforce in England.It is intended that [...]
Tethered to cribs – 20 dying boys….
Posted in Abuse, Care, Leadership, Management, Psychology, Training on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is not my intention to spark yet another debate on Iraq. Rather it is to show how the human spirit can be so cruel without external control and authority and the trappings of civilization. The potential cruelty of the human heart should not be underestimated.
American troops have found more than 20 emaciated boys close [...]
What goes around….Old news fit for today.
Posted in Abuse, Care, Leadership, Management, NVQ care, Training on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the light of recent child / youth abuse news from Kerelaw residential home in Scotland, this news from 9 years ago seems somewhat apt. Are residential units up to speed with their training obligations? Is suprevision being taken seriously? Do senior managers walk the boards?
Another useful piece of evidence for NVQ portfolio’s.
What do you see as [...]
Abuse: managers in all care sectors should take note.
Posted in Abuse, Care, Leadership, Management on June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The revelation that around 40 individual members of staff at Kerelaw School and secure unit in Ayrshire were involved directly in the abuse of young people is truly shocking. We have known for some time there was something rotten at the heart of the management of this centre for some of the most difficult of [...]
