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 [...]
Dementia: too low a priority by health and social services.
Posted in Care, Management, News on July 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The care of people with dementia needs to be urgently improved, the government’s spending watchdog said on Wednesday.
“Despite a steeply rising trend in cases of dementia the condition is being given too low a priority by health and social services,” the National Audit Office said.
“Too few people are being diagnosed, or being diagnosed early enough, [...]
