Looking after Welsh Interests is Mr Mick Collins, a Senior Manager for Powys Social Services. Mick Chairs the regional Dyfed Powys Adult Protection Forum and is a founder member of the Wales Adult Protection Advisory Group, plus a Trustee for both PAVAUK and Action on Elder Abuse.  His dedication and involvement with Adult Protection as shown below reinforces his hand on the PAVA Wales tiller. Such involvement includes:-        

         *Links with the Wales and also the West Midlands Adult Protection Coordinators Groups

• Links with the Ann Croft Trust

  • Links with the University of Glamorgan and currently involved in a research project on users experiences of abuse and hope to be successful with a bid for research on perpetrator motivation

   

   

  • Various links with Welsh Assembly Adult Protection work streams

   

PAVA WALES
 
2003

October Inaugural Meeting Llandrindod

2004

February

1. Practitioner support Merthyr

2. Gatekeeping AP

June

1. Reporting & data collection Llandrindod

2. Community & District Nursing Association report on AP

3. Financial protection and Receivership

September

Issues from cases St Asaph

December

 1. UniGlam Research – AP/LD Ebbw Vale

2. Police – MAPPA/MARAC process

2005

March

Capacity, Consent & Undue Influence Aberystwyth

June

1. The role of CSSIW in AP Transitions, Swansea

2. Child to adult protection

September

Role of Police in Adult Protection Mold

November

Role of Health in Adult Protection Llandrindod


2006

May

1. The POVA list, first 100 cases Llandrindod

2. Case studies

June

1. The role of PAVA Pontypridd

2. Jakes Justice (Video)

3. Thresholds in AP

December

1.PAVA UK AGM Cwmbran

2. Witness support, preparation and profiling

3. Preserving evidence

2007

May

1. Independent Sector Perspectives Llandrindod on AP

2. AP Case Studies

September

Advocacy and Adult Protection Mold

 
2008

February

1. Thresholds in AP Pontypridd

2. Whistleblowing

3. Case Studies

July

1. Mental Capacity Act and AP Llandrindod

2. IMCAs

3. DoLS

4. AP Prosecutions

November

1.Forced Marriages/Trafficking

2.PAVA Best Practice Project Swansea

2009

May

 1. AP and Mental Health Builth Wells

2. In Safe Hands: Research Review

July

 Serious Case Reviews Mold

October

Wales National  PAVA Conference

First PAVA Conference - Please see separate page.

 Other News

Adult protection shot up the agenda of the twenty two Welsh local authorities this autumn as Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales inspections began of adult protection performance. Each local authority is being treated to a three day inspection by some combination of two inspectors from a small pool. We have to wait a few weeks for any individual feedback and then in February we will get the over view report which may shape or alter our future approaches.

In parallel, the University of Glamorgan has undertaken research on the effectiveness of adult protection in Wales and the fitness for current purposes of the 2000 Guidance ‘In Safe Hands’. The report will be with the Minister before Christmas.

The Assembly Adult Protection Project Board will consider these reports and set out recommendations for the future of adult protection in Wales upon which it will consult.
 

PAVA WALES 2010

Once again the PAVA Wales will run a series of seminars in 2010. The first, in South Wales, will include a presentation of the research by the University of Glamorgan commissioned by Powys Social Services on the experiences of vulnerable adults of adult protection procedures. Other topics likely to be presented and debated include:

• Work with perpetrators who are vulnerable adults

• Closer working between adult protection and domestic violence, and use of Domestic Violence Courts.

• Risk assessments, tools and practice

• Health management of adult protection; practice and reporting implications.

We look forward to continuing our work in 2010, compliments of the season from Wales.