Adult protection legislation and investigations have always had fewer teeth than the equivalent in children’s services. This is something that has niggled me for all the years that I have been responsible for conducting Adult Protection (now called Safeguarding Adults) investigations. You can find yourself in a situation where harm has been caused and then be [...]

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