The Government is advancing plans for a national policy on adult safeguarding due to rising elder abuse reports. These plans propose making elder abuse a specific criminal offence. This initiative comes in response to a reported doubling of complaints regarding elder abuse since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, reaching over 7,500 cases annually. The focus will be on preventing coercive control exercised by family members, particularly children, over elderly individuals.
Elder abuse is to be made a specific criminal offence by the Government, targeting the coercive control of seniors by their children or relatives.
There has been an alarming rise in reports of elder abuse, with complaints doubling since the start of the Covid pandemic to more than 7,500 in a year.
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