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990332

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date	18/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Older People: Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make elder abuse an aggravated offence.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	181315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has asked the Law Commission to carry out an independent review into hate crime legislation to consider whether existing legislation is consistent and effective. This will include whether crimes motivated by, or demonstrating hatred of older people or other potential protected characteristics should be hate crimes.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/10/2018 15:29:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

532434

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Older People: Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data is held by local authorities on suspected abuse of the elderly by social carers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	41646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) collects national level data on older adult safeguarding and reports annually. The Safeguarding Adults Collection (formally the Safeguarding Adults Return) presents information about adults at risk for whom safeguarding referrals were opened during the reporting period, and case details for safeguarding referrals which concluded during the reporting period. A safeguarding referral is where a concern is raised with a council about a risk of abuse, which instigates an enquiry under the local safeguarding procedures. The data collection captures the source of harm including where this comes from social care support. Further details regarding the collection can be found on the HSCIC website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/socialcarecollections2016" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/socialcarecollections2016</a></p><p> </p><p>Local authorities will collect a range of safeguarding intelligence which the Department has not been prescriptive in setting out. However, the Government has made it clear in statutory guidance to support implementation of the Care Act (2014) that Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs) must establish ways of analysing and interrogating data on safeguarding notifications that increase the SABs understanding of prevalence of abuse and neglect locally and that builds up a picture over time. Local authorities, the NHS and the Police are all core statutory partners on SABs.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/07/2016 15:32:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

532488

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Older People: Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to tackle suspected abuse of the elderly by social carers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	41647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to preventing and reducing the risk of harm to older adults in vulnerable situations regardless of the source of harm.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Act (2014) placed adult safeguarding on a statutory footing for the first time and provided local authorities with the lead on responding to, and preventing, abuse and neglect. Supported by a new duty of cooperation by other relevant agencies, set out in the Act, it has been made clear that safeguarding is everyone’s business. The statutory guidance to the Act sets out an expectation that local authorities ensure that the services they commission are safe, effective and of high quality. It also makes clear that those providing the service, local authorities and the Care Quality Commission take swift action where anyone alleges poor care, neglect or abuse.</p><p> </p><p>Behaviour which amounts to abuse and neglect often constitutes specific criminal offences. Although the local authority has the lead role in making enquiries, where criminal activity is suspected, then the early involvement of the police is likely to be appropriate in many cases, and that is what we would want to see.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/07/2016 15:20:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

421138

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Older People: Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the prevalence of elder abuse by family members in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	11521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>We recognise that people of all ages may be subjected to domestic abuse. We are committed to ensuring the police and other frontline agencies have the tools they need to respond effectively. On 3 March 2015, domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour became specific offences under the Serious Crime Act.</p><p>In October 2015, new guidance on investigating domestic abuse was published by the College of Policing which includes abuse of older people. New training for the police on domestic abuse has been developed and piloted in Hertfordshire; and the College is reviewing risk assessment tools used by officers. In addition, for the first time all police forces must flag all domestic abuse incidents as crimes.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service updated its domestic abuse legal guidance in December 2014. This includes advice for prosecutors on elder abuse. E-learning is also being finalised for prosecutors on this issue.</p><p>In addition, the Care Act 2014 heralds a significant step change for adult safeguarding in England by placing it on a statutory footing and providing a greater focus on the prevention of abuse and neglect and on the desired outcomes of the individual in question.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 20/10/2015 16:07:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce