Safeguarding adults at risk of harm

Abstract

#### Summary points #### Sources and selection criteria In preparing this review we have used our personal experience and personal archives and conducted searches of the Cochrane Collaboration, PubMed, and Clinical Evidence using search terms including “safeguarding adults” and “vulnerable adults”. In addition we have drawn on information about safeguarding investigations reported to the Health and Social Care Information Centre, as well as government publications and “serious case reviews” of safeguarding events. Safeguarding adults is about protecting those at risk of harm. It involves identifying abuse and acting where harm is occurring. The UK Department of Health’s No Secrets guidance defines a vulnerable adult as a person aged 18 years or over “who is or may be in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness; and who is or may be unable to take care of him …

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