Alison Brammer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6575052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Brammer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Brammer |
| SIGNATURE | BRAMMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring the changes and challenges of Covid-19 in adult safeguarding practice
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a mixed-methods study on the impact that COVID-19 has had on adult safeguarding. The research sought to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by COVID-19 to both frontline and non-frontline professionals working in adult safeguarding. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods project was undertaken comprising a literature review, survey, semi-structured interviews and a …
Mothers of children removed under a care order
Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Act 1989. In particular it considers the women’s experiences of their relationships with their own mothers and places this within the context of the mothers’ own experiences of having their children tak…
The Care Act 2014
The Care Act 2014: a new legal framework for safeguarding adults in civil society Many of us may be able to remember the general air of excitement that surrounded the writing and publishing of "No Secrets" (Department of Health, 2000) and "In Safe Hands" (Welsh Assembly Government, 2000), although we might wish we were young enough not to! At the time, the documents generated mixed feelings amongst service users/customers and carers as well as pr…
Contact, welfare and children in care
The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a young woman called Frances, caused by direct contact with her birth family and the cessation of such contact. The paper addresses the tension between these two types of harm, in particular the role of…
Social Work Law
Time for justice, time for change! The place of academic and community partnerships in promoting local and global rights and challenging injustice
This paper reflects on a three-year research project involving academics and public, private and third sector partners in the UK and India. The team engaged with innovative international outreach research methods to question how listening to ‘voices of experience’ can inform and ‘outrage’ academic and community perspectives on human rights to create and promote local to international access to justice strategies. During the project Keele Universi…
Social Work Law
Inside the Court of Protection
Purpose This paper aims to summarize the work of the Court of Protection. Design/methodology/approach The paper outlines the history and range of applications within the jurisdiction of the Court, drawing from the Mental Capacity Act and the Code of Practice. Reference is made to annual reports of the work of the court which profile its workload. Finally there is a review of a line of case law dealing with the question of media attendance and rep…
Legal developments since No Secrets
No Secrets: Guidance on developing and implementing multiagency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse was introduced as formal guidance in 2000 (Department of Health, 2000). In July 2009, the government published Safeguarding Adults: Report on the consultation on the review of the ‘No Secrete’ guidance (Department of Health, 2009), paving the way for revised guidance. In the 10 years since the introduction of No Secrets,…
Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004
New abuse laws in Scotland
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
Mental incapacity and declaratory relief
Human Rights Act 1998
Undue influence
This legal column includes discussion of a recently decided Court of Appeal case relevant to vulnerable adults and a review of Fair Access to Care Services, the guidance on eligibility criteria for adult social care
Human Rights Act 1998
The recent incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK domestic law as the Human Rights Act 1998 is predicted to have a major impact on all aspects of life. Here, Alison Brammer provides a comprehensive overview of the Act and looks specifically at how it may affect adult protection policy and practice
Case digest
Protecting vulnerable adults from sexual abuse
Here, the legal situation relating to sexual activity and people with reduced capacity is considered. From the starting point of one recent, contentious case, the column goes on to examine the current state of legal protection and intervention, and looks at how this could be improved by current developments and possible future changes
Legislative update
An overview
Defining elder abuse
The definition of elder abuse is at a formative stage in British social policy. This paper examines four existing definitions of elder abuse from policy and socio-legal perspectives. The development of the definitions is reviewed as part of the process of problem formation within the context of the social construction of old age in British social policy. Central themes and terms contained in the definitions are analysed in detail from legal and p…
The Registered Homes Act 1984
Parliament has responded to the issue of treatment of the elderly within institutions with the enactment of the Registered Homes Act 1984. This represents the primary means by which the care of the elderly in registered homes is regulated. A system of quality control and policing is introduced and a framework is provided within which registration authorities can monitor homes, exert powers over them and, in theory, be assured that residents recei…
Defining elder abuse
The definition of elder abuse is at a formative stage in British social policy. This paper examines four existing definitions of elder abuse from policy and socio-legal perspectives. The development of the definitions is reviewed as part of the process of problem formation within the context of the social construction of old age in British social policy. Central themes and terms contained in the definitions are analysed in detail from legal and p…
Legal developments since No Secrets
No Secrets: Guidance on developing and implementing multiagency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse was introduced as formal guidance in 2000 (Department of Health, 2000). In July 2009, the government published Safeguarding Adults: Report on the consultation on the review of the ‘No Secrete’ guidance (Department of Health, 2009), paving the way for revised guidance. In the 10 years since the introduction of No Secrets,…
The Registered Homes Act 1984
Parliament has responded to the issue of treatment of the elderly within institutions with the enactment of the Registered Homes Act 1984. This represents the primary means by which the care of the elderly in registered homes is regulated. A system of quality control and policing is introduced and a framework is provided within which registration authorities can monitor homes, exert powers over them and, in theory, be assured that residents recei…
Exploring the changes and challenges of Covid-19 in adult safeguarding practice
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a mixed-methods study on the impact that COVID-19 has had on adult safeguarding. The research sought to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by COVID-19 to both frontline and non-frontline professionals working in adult safeguarding. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods project was undertaken comprising a literature review, survey, semi-structured interviews and a …
Mothers of children removed under a care order
Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Act 1989. In particular it considers the women’s experiences of their relationships with their own mothers and places this within the context of the mothers’ own experiences of having their children tak…
Contact, welfare and children in care
The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a young woman called Frances, caused by direct contact with her birth family and the cessation of such contact. The paper addresses the tension between these two types of harm, in particular the role of…
Inside the Court of Protection
Purpose This paper aims to summarize the work of the Court of Protection. Design/methodology/approach The paper outlines the history and range of applications within the jurisdiction of the Court, drawing from the Mental Capacity Act and the Code of Practice. Reference is made to annual reports of the work of the court which profile its workload. Finally there is a review of a line of case law dealing with the question of media attendance and rep…
Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004
New abuse laws in Scotland
The Registered Homes Act 1984
Parliament has responded to the issue of treatment of the elderly within institutions with the enactment of the Registered Homes Act 1984. This represents the primary means by which the care of the elderly in registered homes is regulated. A system of quality control and policing is introduced and a framework is provided within which registration authorities can monitor homes, exert powers over them and, in theory, be assured that residents recei…
Defining elder abuse
The definition of elder abuse is at a formative stage in British social policy. This paper examines four existing definitions of elder abuse from policy and socio-legal perspectives. The development of the definitions is reviewed as part of the process of problem formation within the context of the social construction of old age in British social policy. Central themes and terms contained in the definitions are analysed in detail from legal and p…
An overview
Case digest
Protecting vulnerable adults from sexual abuse
Here, the legal situation relating to sexual activity and people with reduced capacity is considered. From the starting point of one recent, contentious case, the column goes on to examine the current state of legal protection and intervention, and looks at how this could be improved by current developments and possible future changes
Legislative update
Human Rights Act 1998
The recent incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK domestic law as the Human Rights Act 1998 is predicted to have a major impact on all aspects of life. Here, Alison Brammer provides a comprehensive overview of the Act and looks specifically at how it may affect adult protection policy and practice
Human Rights Act 1998
Undue influence
This legal column includes discussion of a recently decided Court of Appeal case relevant to vulnerable adults and a review of Fair Access to Care Services, the guidance on eligibility criteria for adult social care
Mental incapacity and declaratory relief
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004
New abuse laws in Scotland
Legal developments since No Secrets
No Secrets: Guidance on developing and implementing multiagency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse was introduced as formal guidance in 2000 (Department of Health, 2000). In July 2009, the government published Safeguarding Adults: Report on the consultation on the review of the ‘No Secrete’ guidance (Department of Health, 2009), paving the way for revised guidance. In the 10 years since the introduction of No Secrets,…
Inside the Court of Protection
Purpose This paper aims to summarize the work of the Court of Protection. Design/methodology/approach The paper outlines the history and range of applications within the jurisdiction of the Court, drawing from the Mental Capacity Act and the Code of Practice. Reference is made to annual reports of the work of the court which profile its workload. Finally there is a review of a line of case law dealing with the question of media attendance and rep…
Social Work Law
Social Work Law
Time for justice, time for change! The place of academic and community partnerships in promoting local and global rights and challenging injustice
This paper reflects on a three-year research project involving academics and public, private and third sector partners in the UK and India. The team engaged with innovative international outreach research methods to question how listening to ‘voices of experience’ can inform and ‘outrage’ academic and community perspectives on human rights to create and promote local to international access to justice strategies. During the project Keele Universi…
The Care Act 2014
The Care Act 2014: a new legal framework for safeguarding adults in civil society Many of us may be able to remember the general air of excitement that surrounded the writing and publishing of "No Secrets" (Department of Health, 2000) and "In Safe Hands" (Welsh Assembly Government, 2000), although we might wish we were young enough not to! At the time, the documents generated mixed feelings amongst service users/customers and carers as well as pr…
Contact, welfare and children in care
The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a young woman called Frances, caused by direct contact with her birth family and the cessation of such contact. The paper addresses the tension between these two types of harm, in particular the role of…
Mothers of children removed under a care order
Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Act 1989. In particular it considers the women’s experiences of their relationships with their own mothers and places this within the context of the mothers’ own experiences of having their children tak…
Exploring the changes and challenges of Covid-19 in adult safeguarding practice
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a mixed-methods study on the impact that COVID-19 has had on adult safeguarding. The research sought to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by COVID-19 to both frontline and non-frontline professionals working in adult safeguarding. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods project was undertaken comprising a literature review, survey, semi-structured interviews and a …
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Elder Abuse and Neglect (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Safeguarding (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (5 works)