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'Ethics and the Street-level Bureaucrat: Implementing Policy to Protect Elders from Abuse'.
Angie Ash
Ethics and Social Welfare,, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 201 - 209
Swansea University Author: Angie Ash
Abstract
<p>As an independent researcher, registered social worker and erstwhile long-term,</p><p>long-distance carer, the care of older people and protection of elders from</p><p>abuse had been constant professional and personal foci for me for many years.</p><p>Com...
| Published in: | Ethics and Social Welfare, |
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| Published: |
2010
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6793 |
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<p>As an independent researcher, registered social worker and erstwhile long-term,</p><p>long-distance carer, the care of older people and protection of elders from</p><p>abuse had been constant professional and personal foci for me for many years.</p><p>Commissioned to review a case involving the serious abuse of an elder where</p><p>official safeguarding procedures had not been used, I puzzled why this had been</p><p>managed ‘informally’ by social services and partner agencies (i.e. outside adult</p><p>safeguarding procedures), with vague unspecified ‘monitoring’ (AEA 2006). Why</p><p>was there this apparent gap between policy intention and implementation? That</p><p>question led to research on which this essay is based.</p> |
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| Keywords: |
Street-level bureaucracy, Elder abuse, Elder care, Quality of care |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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2 |
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201 |
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209 |