Welcome

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Mission Statement

PAVA strives through collaboration with practitioners in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors to develop practice-based interventions and to generate positive outcomes in working with the abuse of vulnerable adults.

This is being achieved by developing inter-agency working, encouraging local networks, promoting problem-solving on key issues and dilemmas in practice and lobbying at both national and local government levels.

Background to PAVA

PAVA was founded in 1997 by Jacki Pritchard and Mervyn Eastman both of whom had been working with the issue of abuse of vulnerable adults for a number of years. PAVA now reflects a wide range of practitioners amongst its membership and includes: Advocacy workers

- Doctors
- Home carers
- Homes inspectors
- Nurses
- Occupational therapists
- olice officers
- Probation officers
- Psychiatrists
- Researchers
- Residential home owners, managers and staff
- Social workers
- Speech therapists
- Trainers
- Volunteers

The Benefits of PAVA

PAVA aims to be practice and practitioner based whilst influencing social policy in the protection of vulnerable adults. Its objectives are:
To promote joint-agency working in the development of policy and procedure and individual cases.
To bring together professionals working with vulnerable adults from all sectors (statutory, voluntary and independent) and all disciplines.
To encourage the development of local networks of practitioners with a commitment to and expertise in adult protection work.
To provide a forum to develop positive action on practice and ethnicity issues.
To promote outcomes which are practical and attuned to the interests and wishes of the vulnerable adults concerned.
To encourage use of the existing law to protect those at risk as well as identifying areas for legal reform and promote debate in those areas.
To increase public awareness of the problem of abuse and the need for a professional response.