SCIE Practice guide 7: Making referrals to the POVA list
Preparing for POVA list referral
Practice points: Increasing staff awareness
Employers and managers should make sure that their staff are familiar with their own and their employers' responsibilities in relation to POVA referral. Increasing staff awareness helps to make this a transparent process in which no one is taken by surprise when action is required.
This might be done as part of staff training in recognising abuse and in what to do if abuse is witnessed by another member of staff. Awareness-raising should be ongoing.
Example
Sheffield City Council has produced an accessible
leaflet called POVA: TheProtection
of Vulnerable Adults list - making
services safe for vulnerable people. This
explains about the list and is available for staff
and service users. Copies can be obtained from
the Adult
Protection Team or by e-mailing adult.protection@sheffield.gov.uk.
