Adult safeguarding

Adults

Council sanctioned for denying care payments without balancing risk and choice

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Adults, Workforce

Social worker who based decisions on family views, not service users’, suspended

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Adults

‘Inadequate’ Mental Capacity Act implementation leaving dementia patients unaware of legal rights

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Adults, Workforce

Decisions to safeguard adults with learning disabilities can make them less safe

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Adults, Mental Health

Government sounds third warning over lack of mental capacity advocacy referrals for safeguarding

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Adults

How social workers can better identify and support older victims of domestic abuse

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Adults

How professionals’ false assumptions allow domestic abuse between older couples to go unnoticed

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Adults

Parallel worlds of domestic abuse and safeguarding need to be brought together

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Adults

Council campaign aims to raise awareness of domestic violence against older people

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Adults, Wales

Welsh council failing to assess risks to vulnerable adults, finds inspection

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home care

Adults

Most councils not paying the recommended minimum fee for home care, report finds

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Adults

Lack of services and support for individuals with early onset dementia

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Adults, Workforce

When does families’ overprotectiveness tip over into psychological abuse?

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Adults, Child safeguarding

Child sexual exploitation: implications for adult social care and safeguarding boards

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Adults

Social care has a role in preventing hate crime, it’s not just a criminal justice issue

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elderly man

Adults

Council lambasted for moving man into care home without capacity assessment

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