Sometimes the most frustrating aspect of working with adult protection (or rather, safeguarding adults procedures as I believe the common parlance is now) is the lack of ‘places to go’ when there is a lack of hard evidence of abusive behaviour. It is possible to document reams and reams of forms, of course – to rewrite [...]

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