Current Issues in Adult Services

Core Electronic Texts:

• Brown, K. (ed.) (2006) Vulnerable adults & community care. Exeter: Learning Matters.
• Department of Health (2008b), Putting people first: working to make it happen: adult social care workforce strategy: interim statement. London, Department of Health. [Online]. (Accessed 2 December 2009).
• Glasby, J. and Littlechild, R. (2002) Social work and direct payments. Bristol: The Policy Press.
• Mandelstam M (2005) Community care practice and the law. 3rd ed. London: Jessica Kingsley.

 Useful Government Reports

• Great Britain. Department of Health (2007) Putting people first: a shared vision and commitment to the transformation of adult social care. [Online]. (Accessed: 7th December 2009).
• Great Britain. Department of Health (2008) Putting people first: working to make it happen: adult social care workforce strategy - interim statement. [Online]. (Accessed: 7th December 2009).
• Great Britain. Department of Health (2000) No secrets: guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse. [Online]. Accessed 7th December 2009).
• Great Britain. Department of Health (2000) No secrets: guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse. [Online]. (Accessed: 7th December 2009).
• Great Britain. Department of Health (2009) Safeguarding adults: a consultation on the review of the ‘No Secrets’ guidance. [Online]. (Accessed: 7th December 2009).
• Carr, Sarah (2008) Personalization: a rough guide. [Online]. (Accessed: 7th December 2009).
• Great Britain. Department of Health (2008) The protection of vulnerable adults list: an investigation of referral patterns and approaches to decision-making. [Online]. (Accessed: 7th December 2009).

Databases & Electronic Resources

Ebscohost Research Databases

Use Ebscohost to find useful full text peer-reviewed journal articles and research papers. You can search several Ebscohost databases simultaneously. Be sure to tick the box for full text to find only full text electronic articles. Particularly useful Ebscohost databases for this module are:

• Academic Search Elite
• British Nursing Index
• CINAHL
• E-journals
• PsycINFO
• SocINDEX

Social Care Online

Free database maintained by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). It contains records of books, DVDs, websites, reports, briefings and consultations documents (mainly produced by UK Government Departments) covering all aspects of social care, social welfare and social work. It allows you to limit your results to full text records.

SCIE’s Work on Adult Services

Section of SCIE’s website devoted to adult services.