Joan Rapaport
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Rapaport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapaport |
| SIGNATURE | RAPAPORT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social Work in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick
The Family Group Conference (FGC) service in New Brunswick has considerably reduced the numbers of children being taken into state care. The initiative has also had a positive impact on social work caseloads and practitioner self-esteem. This descriptive account seeks to explain why New Brunswick opted to introduce the FGC, how the initiative was implemented and what outcomes were achieved. Implications for research and future development with re…
Making Decisions about Who Should Be Barred from Working with Adults in Vulnerable Situations
This article reports on an element of recently completed research that aimed to explore factors leading to placement on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) List—a barring list unique to England and Wales. A multiple methods approach was adopted, involving in-depth quantitative analysis of POVA referral records and a set of discussion groups and interviews investigating how decisions were being made. This article focuses on this latter elem…
Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law
The roots of mental incapacity and mental health legislation in England and Wales are deeply intertwined. Changes in healthcare policy, human rights principles, demographics and social attitudes have highlighted deficiencies in the law to protect the interests and rights of people considered to lack decision-making capacity. This led to calls for legal reform from social workers amongst other groups. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 took shape alongs…
Realising the safeguarding potential of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 was implemented in England and Wales in 2007. This article reports the findings of interviews with 15 adult safeguarding co‐ordinators in the London area about the operation of the Act and its impact upon adult safeguarding work, particularly in relation to people with dementia. The interviews covered participants' own training and understanding of the Act, their confidence in practice and capacity to be local sources…
Banned from working in social care
Since July 2004, employers of social care staff working with vulnerable adults in England and Wales have been legally required to refer workers or volunteers dismissed for misconduct because they have harmed vulnerable adults or placed them at risk of harm to the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list. The POVA list is unique to England and Wales, and is a powerful tool of quality assurance for the care sector and for the safeguarding of vul…
Accusations of misconduct among staff working with vulnerable adults in England and Wales
The vetting and barring scheme known as the POVA (Protection of Vulnerable Adults) List established in England and Wales by the Care Standards Act (2000) was intended to provide greater assurance about the quality of social care for adults. This article reports on part of a larger research study investigating the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) List. It focuses on different kinds of mitigation used by staff to counter allegations of harmin…
We are not blaming anyone, but if we don't know about amenities, we cannot seek them out’
Improving access to culturally-appropriate services and enhancing responses to the needs of older people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds were among the aims of the National Service Framework for Older People (NSFOP) that was introduced in England in 2001. Progress in meeting the aims of the NSFOP was evaluated by a mid-term independent review led by the Healthcare Commission, the body responsible for regulating health-care services in …
Safeguarding and System Change
Cash for care or consumer-directed services are increasing in scope and size in Europe and North America. The English Department of Health initiated a pilot form of personalised support for adults (Individual Budgets) in 13 local authorities that aimed to extend opportunities for users of social care services to determine their own priorities and preferences in the expectation that this will enhance their well-being. This article reports on and d…
Training for Change
Individual Budgets are central to the implementation of English government policy goals in social care. Like other consumer-directed or self-directed support programmes operating in parts of the developed world, they are envisaged as a way of increasing individuals' choice and control over social care resources provided by the public sector. While the opportunities they provide for people using services have been identified prospectively in the E…
Expertise and Experience
The views of people with experiences of using services and the views of their carers about the 2005 Mental Capacity Act (England and Wales) are reported in this article. Interviews with ten people about the detail of the Act prior to its implementation revealed that they welcomed the principles of the Act, and were able to relate these to aspects of their experiences. The Act's framework for planning around care and treatment and for making advan…
Articulating the Improvement of Care Standards
The vetting and barring scheme known as the POVA (Protection of Vulnerable Adults) List established in England and Wales by the Care Standards Act (2000) was intended to provide greater assurance about the quality of social care for adults. This article discusses referrals to the POVA List in the period 21 May 2004 to 17 November 2006, details of which were made available to the researchers. These comprised 5,294 cases. Further data relating to t…
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Its Influences on Social Work Practice
The newly implemented Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales enshrines much of the practice established under case law to safeguard people who lack ability to make specific decisions, enhances personal autonomy and enables people to make advance decisions to refuse treatment. It introduces new proxy-decision-making roles to address health, welfare and financial matters and specialist advocacy for people who do not have family or friends wh…
Weighing the evidence
This article describes research investigating the steps involved in recommending to the Secretary of State for Health whether a care worker should be included on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list, which records individuals barred from working and volunteering with vulnerable adults in England and Wales.The aims of the study were to investigate patterns of referrals to the list; factors associated with the collection of evidence to p…
Advance Directives in Mental Health
Family Matters
The ‘nearest relative’ and social work roles in mental health services share common ground. Although the social worker is a trained professional and the nearest relative is identified from a fixed hierarchy of kin, both roles were awarded the authority to make a compulsory order for hospital admission of a person with serious mental disorder warranting detention in hospital. Both roles will alter if amendments to the 1983 Mental Health Act in Eng…
There Are Wonderful Social Workers but it's a Lottery
This paper draws on the evaluation of the impact of the English National Service Framework for Older People (NSFOP) on the experiences and expectations of older people, four years into its ten-year programme. The NSFOP focuses on achieving cultural changes so that older people and their carers are treated with respect, dignity and fairness. The evaluation took a mixed methods consultation approach in ten localities. This paper focuses on what was…
Promoting the use of diverse sources of evidence
English This article reports on an innovatory partnership between regulatory bodies and researchers to assess progress in improving NHS, local authority and other services for older people in 10 different parts of England. It discusses how consultation exercises held as part of local inspections that fed into a national review of the National Service Framework for Older People may enlarge the evidence base for planning and service improvement pur…
An inspector calls
This article reports on the findings of the inspections and consultations undertaken as part of the evaluation of the National Service Framework for Older People. It focuses on what was found about the implementation of adult protection systems, by synthesising the inspectors' findings, drawing on older people's comments in meetings and interviews concerning care in hospitals, as an illustration, and by reporting the results from a survey. Togeth…
Private and Public Protection
Carers and confidentiality in mental health care
Relatives or carers of people with mental health problems have criticised professionals for their failures to share information with them. This article reports on a multiple method study comprising a policy search, a survey of service users, carers and professionals, and stakeholder interviews and group events. The study found few policies that addressed the principles underpinning information sharing with carers. However, examples of good practi…
Policy Swings Over Thirty-Five Years of Mental Health Social Work in England and Wales 1969–2004
Thirty-five years ago social work in England and Wales was reeling in the wake of the Seebohm Report (Citation1968) and local government reform that had brought about the unification of personal social services under new local authority Social Services Departments (SSDs). Over three decades later, social workers working in the fields of childcare, mental health, learning disability, older people and physical disability once again are increasingly…
A Matter of Principle
Social Role Valorisation theory, advanced to enhance the lives of disadvantaged groups of people, has addressed community care and lay advocacy for patients and users but has ignored the roles of relatives and carers. [In this article, the term ‘patient’ is used to describe a person who is detained under the Mental Health Act, liable to be detained, or in hospital on an informal basis. The term ‘service user’ describes someone receiving psychiatr…
Banned from working in social care
Since July 2004, employers of social care staff working with vulnerable adults in England and Wales have been legally required to refer workers or volunteers dismissed for misconduct because they have harmed vulnerable adults or placed them at risk of harm to the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list. The POVA list is unique to England and Wales, and is a powerful tool of quality assurance for the care sector and for the safeguarding of vul…
There Are Wonderful Social Workers but it's a Lottery
This paper draws on the evaluation of the impact of the English National Service Framework for Older People (NSFOP) on the experiences and expectations of older people, four years into its ten-year programme. The NSFOP focuses on achieving cultural changes so that older people and their carers are treated with respect, dignity and fairness. The evaluation took a mixed methods consultation approach in ten localities. This paper focuses on what was…
Safeguarding and System Change
Cash for care or consumer-directed services are increasing in scope and size in Europe and North America. The English Department of Health initiated a pilot form of personalised support for adults (Individual Budgets) in 13 local authorities that aimed to extend opportunities for users of social care services to determine their own priorities and preferences in the expectation that this will enhance their well-being. This article reports on and d…
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Its Influences on Social Work Practice
The newly implemented Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales enshrines much of the practice established under case law to safeguard people who lack ability to make specific decisions, enhances personal autonomy and enables people to make advance decisions to refuse treatment. It introduces new proxy-decision-making roles to address health, welfare and financial matters and specialist advocacy for people who do not have family or friends wh…
A Matter of Principle
Social Role Valorisation theory, advanced to enhance the lives of disadvantaged groups of people, has addressed community care and lay advocacy for patients and users but has ignored the roles of relatives and carers. [In this article, the term ‘patient’ is used to describe a person who is detained under the Mental Health Act, liable to be detained, or in hospital on an informal basis. The term ‘service user’ describes someone receiving psychiatr…
Realising the safeguarding potential of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 was implemented in England and Wales in 2007. This article reports the findings of interviews with 15 adult safeguarding co‐ordinators in the London area about the operation of the Act and its impact upon adult safeguarding work, particularly in relation to people with dementia. The interviews covered participants' own training and understanding of the Act, their confidence in practice and capacity to be local sources…
We are not blaming anyone, but if we don't know about amenities, we cannot seek them out’
Improving access to culturally-appropriate services and enhancing responses to the needs of older people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds were among the aims of the National Service Framework for Older People (NSFOP) that was introduced in England in 2001. Progress in meeting the aims of the NSFOP was evaluated by a mid-term independent review led by the Healthcare Commission, the body responsible for regulating health-care services in …
Training for Change
Individual Budgets are central to the implementation of English government policy goals in social care. Like other consumer-directed or self-directed support programmes operating in parts of the developed world, they are envisaged as a way of increasing individuals' choice and control over social care resources provided by the public sector. While the opportunities they provide for people using services have been identified prospectively in the E…
An inspector calls
This article reports on the findings of the inspections and consultations undertaken as part of the evaluation of the National Service Framework for Older People. It focuses on what was found about the implementation of adult protection systems, by synthesising the inspectors' findings, drawing on older people's comments in meetings and interviews concerning care in hospitals, as an illustration, and by reporting the results from a survey. Togeth…
Carers and confidentiality in mental health care
Relatives or carers of people with mental health problems have criticised professionals for their failures to share information with them. This article reports on a multiple method study comprising a policy search, a survey of service users, carers and professionals, and stakeholder interviews and group events. The study found few policies that addressed the principles underpinning information sharing with carers. However, examples of good practi…
Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law
The roots of mental incapacity and mental health legislation in England and Wales are deeply intertwined. Changes in healthcare policy, human rights principles, demographics and social attitudes have highlighted deficiencies in the law to protect the interests and rights of people considered to lack decision-making capacity. This led to calls for legal reform from social workers amongst other groups. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 took shape alongs…
Family Matters
The ‘nearest relative’ and social work roles in mental health services share common ground. Although the social worker is a trained professional and the nearest relative is identified from a fixed hierarchy of kin, both roles were awarded the authority to make a compulsory order for hospital admission of a person with serious mental disorder warranting detention in hospital. Both roles will alter if amendments to the 1983 Mental Health Act in Eng…
Promoting the use of diverse sources of evidence
English This article reports on an innovatory partnership between regulatory bodies and researchers to assess progress in improving NHS, local authority and other services for older people in 10 different parts of England. It discusses how consultation exercises held as part of local inspections that fed into a national review of the National Service Framework for Older People may enlarge the evidence base for planning and service improvement pur…
Making Decisions about Who Should Be Barred from Working with Adults in Vulnerable Situations
This article reports on an element of recently completed research that aimed to explore factors leading to placement on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) List—a barring list unique to England and Wales. A multiple methods approach was adopted, involving in-depth quantitative analysis of POVA referral records and a set of discussion groups and interviews investigating how decisions were being made. This article focuses on this latter elem…
Accusations of misconduct among staff working with vulnerable adults in England and Wales
The vetting and barring scheme known as the POVA (Protection of Vulnerable Adults) List established in England and Wales by the Care Standards Act (2000) was intended to provide greater assurance about the quality of social care for adults. This article reports on part of a larger research study investigating the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) List. It focuses on different kinds of mitigation used by staff to counter allegations of harmin…
Expertise and Experience
The views of people with experiences of using services and the views of their carers about the 2005 Mental Capacity Act (England and Wales) are reported in this article. Interviews with ten people about the detail of the Act prior to its implementation revealed that they welcomed the principles of the Act, and were able to relate these to aspects of their experiences. The Act's framework for planning around care and treatment and for making advan…
Weighing the evidence
This article describes research investigating the steps involved in recommending to the Secretary of State for Health whether a care worker should be included on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list, which records individuals barred from working and volunteering with vulnerable adults in England and Wales.The aims of the study were to investigate patterns of referrals to the list; factors associated with the collection of evidence to p…
Policy Swings Over Thirty-Five Years of Mental Health Social Work in England and Wales 1969–2004
Thirty-five years ago social work in England and Wales was reeling in the wake of the Seebohm Report (Citation1968) and local government reform that had brought about the unification of personal social services under new local authority Social Services Departments (SSDs). Over three decades later, social workers working in the fields of childcare, mental health, learning disability, older people and physical disability once again are increasingly…
A Matter of Principle
Social Role Valorisation theory, advanced to enhance the lives of disadvantaged groups of people, has addressed community care and lay advocacy for patients and users but has ignored the roles of relatives and carers. [In this article, the term ‘patient’ is used to describe a person who is detained under the Mental Health Act, liable to be detained, or in hospital on an informal basis. The term ‘service user’ describes someone receiving psychiatr…
Policy Swings Over Thirty-Five Years of Mental Health Social Work in England and Wales 1969–2004
Thirty-five years ago social work in England and Wales was reeling in the wake of the Seebohm Report (Citation1968) and local government reform that had brought about the unification of personal social services under new local authority Social Services Departments (SSDs). Over three decades later, social workers working in the fields of childcare, mental health, learning disability, older people and physical disability once again are increasingly…
Carers and confidentiality in mental health care
Relatives or carers of people with mental health problems have criticised professionals for their failures to share information with them. This article reports on a multiple method study comprising a policy search, a survey of service users, carers and professionals, and stakeholder interviews and group events. The study found few policies that addressed the principles underpinning information sharing with carers. However, examples of good practi…
Promoting the use of diverse sources of evidence
English This article reports on an innovatory partnership between regulatory bodies and researchers to assess progress in improving NHS, local authority and other services for older people in 10 different parts of England. It discusses how consultation exercises held as part of local inspections that fed into a national review of the National Service Framework for Older People may enlarge the evidence base for planning and service improvement pur…
An inspector calls
This article reports on the findings of the inspections and consultations undertaken as part of the evaluation of the National Service Framework for Older People. It focuses on what was found about the implementation of adult protection systems, by synthesising the inspectors' findings, drawing on older people's comments in meetings and interviews concerning care in hospitals, as an illustration, and by reporting the results from a survey. Togeth…
Private and Public Protection
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Its Influences on Social Work Practice
The newly implemented Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales enshrines much of the practice established under case law to safeguard people who lack ability to make specific decisions, enhances personal autonomy and enables people to make advance decisions to refuse treatment. It introduces new proxy-decision-making roles to address health, welfare and financial matters and specialist advocacy for people who do not have family or friends wh…
Weighing the evidence
This article describes research investigating the steps involved in recommending to the Secretary of State for Health whether a care worker should be included on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list, which records individuals barred from working and volunteering with vulnerable adults in England and Wales.The aims of the study were to investigate patterns of referrals to the list; factors associated with the collection of evidence to p…
Advance Directives in Mental Health
Family Matters
The ‘nearest relative’ and social work roles in mental health services share common ground. Although the social worker is a trained professional and the nearest relative is identified from a fixed hierarchy of kin, both roles were awarded the authority to make a compulsory order for hospital admission of a person with serious mental disorder warranting detention in hospital. Both roles will alter if amendments to the 1983 Mental Health Act in Eng…
There Are Wonderful Social Workers but it's a Lottery
This paper draws on the evaluation of the impact of the English National Service Framework for Older People (NSFOP) on the experiences and expectations of older people, four years into its ten-year programme. The NSFOP focuses on achieving cultural changes so that older people and their carers are treated with respect, dignity and fairness. The evaluation took a mixed methods consultation approach in ten localities. This paper focuses on what was…
Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law
The roots of mental incapacity and mental health legislation in England and Wales are deeply intertwined. Changes in healthcare policy, human rights principles, demographics and social attitudes have highlighted deficiencies in the law to protect the interests and rights of people considered to lack decision-making capacity. This led to calls for legal reform from social workers amongst other groups. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 took shape alongs…
Realising the safeguarding potential of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 was implemented in England and Wales in 2007. This article reports the findings of interviews with 15 adult safeguarding co‐ordinators in the London area about the operation of the Act and its impact upon adult safeguarding work, particularly in relation to people with dementia. The interviews covered participants' own training and understanding of the Act, their confidence in practice and capacity to be local sources…
Banned from working in social care
Since July 2004, employers of social care staff working with vulnerable adults in England and Wales have been legally required to refer workers or volunteers dismissed for misconduct because they have harmed vulnerable adults or placed them at risk of harm to the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list. The POVA list is unique to England and Wales, and is a powerful tool of quality assurance for the care sector and for the safeguarding of vul…
Accusations of misconduct among staff working with vulnerable adults in England and Wales
The vetting and barring scheme known as the POVA (Protection of Vulnerable Adults) List established in England and Wales by the Care Standards Act (2000) was intended to provide greater assurance about the quality of social care for adults. This article reports on part of a larger research study investigating the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) List. It focuses on different kinds of mitigation used by staff to counter allegations of harmin…
We are not blaming anyone, but if we don't know about amenities, we cannot seek them out’
Improving access to culturally-appropriate services and enhancing responses to the needs of older people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds were among the aims of the National Service Framework for Older People (NSFOP) that was introduced in England in 2001. Progress in meeting the aims of the NSFOP was evaluated by a mid-term independent review led by the Healthcare Commission, the body responsible for regulating health-care services in …
Safeguarding and System Change
Cash for care or consumer-directed services are increasing in scope and size in Europe and North America. The English Department of Health initiated a pilot form of personalised support for adults (Individual Budgets) in 13 local authorities that aimed to extend opportunities for users of social care services to determine their own priorities and preferences in the expectation that this will enhance their well-being. This article reports on and d…
Training for Change
Individual Budgets are central to the implementation of English government policy goals in social care. Like other consumer-directed or self-directed support programmes operating in parts of the developed world, they are envisaged as a way of increasing individuals' choice and control over social care resources provided by the public sector. While the opportunities they provide for people using services have been identified prospectively in the E…
Expertise and Experience
The views of people with experiences of using services and the views of their carers about the 2005 Mental Capacity Act (England and Wales) are reported in this article. Interviews with ten people about the detail of the Act prior to its implementation revealed that they welcomed the principles of the Act, and were able to relate these to aspects of their experiences. The Act's framework for planning around care and treatment and for making advan…
Articulating the Improvement of Care Standards
The vetting and barring scheme known as the POVA (Protection of Vulnerable Adults) List established in England and Wales by the Care Standards Act (2000) was intended to provide greater assurance about the quality of social care for adults. This article discusses referrals to the POVA List in the period 21 May 2004 to 17 November 2006, details of which were made available to the researchers. These comprised 5,294 cases. Further data relating to t…
Making Decisions about Who Should Be Barred from Working with Adults in Vulnerable Situations
This article reports on an element of recently completed research that aimed to explore factors leading to placement on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) List—a barring list unique to England and Wales. A multiple methods approach was adopted, involving in-depth quantitative analysis of POVA referral records and a set of discussion groups and interviews investigating how decisions were being made. This article focuses on this latter elem…
Social Work in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick
The Family Group Conference (FGC) service in New Brunswick has considerably reduced the numbers of children being taken into state care. The initiative has also had a positive impact on social work caseloads and practitioner self-esteem. This descriptive account seeks to explain why New Brunswick opted to introduce the FGC, how the initiative was implemented and what outcomes were achieved. Implications for research and future development with re…
Medicine (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Nursing (15 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Mental health (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)