The Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board's Community Reference Group has been working alongside partners in Southwark and Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust to bring about a week of events aimed at raising awareness and understanding on the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
In Lambeth, we will be raising awareness of the Act and providing training for social workers throughout the week.
ITV's ‘Tonight’ programme with Fiona Foster featured a bogus trader case investigated by Lambeth's Trading Standards team in conjunction with Croydon Trading Standards, which led to prosecution of the offender and freezing of his assets.
29 September 2016 by Rebecca Cooney
The Charity Commission is producing guidance that is likely to advise every charity to establish how it comes into contact with vulnerable people.
Legal expert Alison Brammer told social workers there was a 'continuing dissatisfaction' with the judicial process in adult abuse cases
Elder abuse is a crime - now let’s make it one.
Foreword
Elder abuse is a major problem across the World. In the UK alone between 500,000 and 800,000 older people are abused in their own homes each year.
Too many old people are suffering and dying, or losing their life savings due to abuse. Too many relatives are disgusted with the lack of justice, the lack of fairness, the lack of any deterrence.
This must stop.