More than 30,000 allegations of abuse and neglect
concerning sheltered housing residents were received by UK councils between 1
April 2014 and 1 November 2017. The data, which was obtained by File on 4, also
found the number of reports increased by 30% over the period. The BBC sent
Freedom of Information requests to every council or health and social care
trust in the UK, seeking the numbers of safeguarding alerts they had received
about residents of sheltered housing and supported living schemes. Just under
half supplied data, which revealed that during the period covered, a total of
30,785 safeguarding alerts were received, of which the majority were in
England. Read more on the BBC website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42708762
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