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<p>It is not possible to identify the number of social care workers that were prosecuted
for abusing older adults in care in each of the last 5 years from the broader offences:</p><ul><li>Care
provider ill-treat / wilfully neglect an individual or breach duty of care</li><li>Ill-treatment
or neglect of a person lacking capacity by anyone responsible for that person’s care</li></ul><p>
</p><p>The offences do not specify whether or not the defendant was a social worker
nor do they specify the age of the victim. Detailed information may be held on individual
court records but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access these
individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p>
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