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Editorial Welcome to this issue of the Journal of Adult Protection. Over the nine years of the Journal’s existence its readership has steadily increased and demand for the journal continues to grow. This success is largely due to the high quality of the papers submitted for publication. This issue is no exception to this trend. Noelle Blackman writes clearly about the issues affecting the older person with a learning disability. People with learning disabilities are now living into old age and this is against the expectation of many parents who thought that they would outlive their child with a learning disability. This creates a number of issues that are clearly set out in Blackman’s paper, including a call for a nationally and centrally co-ordinated approach towards older families and people with learning disabilities. Perkins, Penhale, and colleagues present a penetrating and insightful analysis of the effectiveness of multi-agency working and the regulatory framework within adult protection in England and Wales. This report sheds new light on the realities of multi-agency working in adult protection. While a number of examples of good partnership working are identified, there is clearly a long way to go in developing improved practice in the field. Fortunately, this paper begins to identify what needs to be done to bring about such improvement across the whole range of stakeholder organisations. Building on the Journal’s long standing celebration of diversity and difference, Puchkov and Damzaev present an interesting paper on the portrayal of elder abuse in Russian folk tales. Many Russian folk tales (as are the folk tales in many other countries) are characterised by physical violence, murder, mutilation, torture and abandonment. Puchkov and Damzaev provide evidence for elder abuse and age discrimination in folk tales and show how repeated exposure in childhood may have influenced the moral education of the adults of today. This edition’s final paper by Gearty is a timely reminder of the next phase of the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act on 1 October 2007. Gearty explains the new Office of the Public Guardian and the new Court of Protection. Gearty’s paper is accessible and will be of particular interest to health and social care professionals as well as relatives and carers. Finally, this issue contains a viewpoint by Giordano and Badmington on linking education and practice in working to protect vulnerable adults in Cardiff, together with three responses. The viewpoint and the responses are of particular interest in the light of the new Help The Aged survey (http:// www.helptheaged.org.uk/en-gb/Campaigns/ News/en_elderabuse_280807.htm ), which shows that fear of misinterpreting a case of elder abuse may be stopping some health professionals (in this poll, nurses) from reporting it. Of the almost 850 professional nurses surveyed 58% said such concerns might stop them reporting suspected abuse and 26% stated that they feared retribution from the abuser. Together with an organisational profile from VOICE UK and a book review, we have endeavoured to cater for a range of interests. We hope you enjoy this issue. Derek Beeston, Staffordshire University © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Limited The Journal of Adult Protection Volume 9 Issue 3 • August 2007 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Adult Protection Pier Professional

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Beeston, Derek
The Journal of Adult Protection , Volume 9 (3) – Aug 1, 2007
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Welcome to this issue of the Journal of Adult Protection. Over the nine years of the Journal’s existence its readership has steadily increased and demand for the journal continues to grow. This success is largely due to the high quality of the papers submitted for publication. This issue is no exception to this trend. Noelle Blackman writes clearly about the issues affecting the older person with a learning disability. People with learning disabilities are now living into old age and this is against the expectation of many parents who thought that they would outlive their child with a learning disability. This creates a number of issues that are clearly set out in Blackman’s paper, including a call for a nationally and centrally co-ordinated approach towards older families and people with learning disabilities. Perkins, Penhale, and colleagues present a penetrating and insightful analysis of the effectiveness of multi-agency working and the regulatory framework within adult protection in England and Wales. This report sheds new light on the realities of multi-agency working in adult protection. While a number of examples of good partnership working are identified, there is clearly a long way to go in developing improved practice in the field. Fortunately, this paper begins to identify what needs to be done to bring about such improvement across the whole range of stakeholder organisations. Building on the Journal’s long standing celebration of diversity and difference, Puchkov and Damzaev present an interesting paper on the portrayal of elder abuse in Russian folk tales. Many Russian folk tales (as are the folk tales in many other countries) are characterised by physical violence, murder, mutilation, torture and abandonment. Puchkov and Damzaev provide evidence for elder abuse and age discrimination in folk tales and show how repeated exposure in childhood may have influenced the moral education of the adults of today. This edition’s final paper by Gearty is a timely reminder of the next phase of the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act on 1 October 2007. Gearty explains the new Office of the Public Guardian and the new Court of Protection. Gearty’s paper is accessible and will be of particular interest to health and social care professionals as well as relatives and carers. Finally, this issue contains a viewpoint by Giordano and Badmington on linking education and practice in working to protect vulnerable adults in Cardiff, together with three responses. The viewpoint and the responses are of particular interest in the light of the new Help The Aged survey (http:// www.helptheaged.org.uk/en-gb/Campaigns/ News/en_elderabuse_280807.htm ), which shows that fear of misinterpreting a case of elder abuse may be stopping some health professionals (in this poll, nurses) from reporting it. Of the almost 850 professional nurses surveyed 58% said such concerns might stop them reporting suspected abuse and 26% stated that they feared retribution from the abuser. Together with an organisational profile from VOICE UK and a book review, we have endeavoured to cater for a range of interests. We hope you enjoy this issue. Derek Beeston, Staffordshire University © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Limited The Journal of Adult Protection Volume 9 Issue 3 • August 2007

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