Raising Adult Safeguarding concerns

Adult safeguarding supports adults who have care and support needs and experiencing, or at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation and unable to protect themselves.

Abuse occurs when someone's human and civil rights are violated by someone else. This can be

• A single or series of actions of abuse
• Deliberately or unknowingly causing harm
• Failure to protect people from abuse

If you believe that an adult is at risk of being abused you should contact us.

An adult at risk is defined as anyone over the age of 18 who:

• has needs for care and support (whether or not the authority is meeting any of those needs)
• is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect 

and 

• as a result of those needs is unable to protect himself or herself against the abuse or neglect or the risk of it

To find out more about how we make enquiries about alleged abuse please see our Making enquiries page.