Safeguarding Adults Week 2023 – Financial Abuse
What is financial abuse? Types of financial or material abuse Theft of money or possessions Fraud, scamming Preventing a person from accessing their own money, benefits or assets Employees taking
Safeguarding Adults Week 2023 – Hidden Harm / curiosity
For day 2 of Safeguarding Adults Week 2023, the Torbay and Devon Safeguarding Adults Partnership are looking at hidden harm and curiosity. Please see links to two YouTube videos that
Safeguarding Adults Week 2023 – Who might abuse adults?
Abuse and neglect might be carried out by anyone in contact with adults, even by people employed to provide care. There may be indicators that adults are experiencing harm from
Safeguarding Adults Week 2023 – What is Safeguarding?
Today is the first day of Safeguarding Adults Week 2023. #SafeguardingAdultsWeek In order for safeguarding to work effectively we need people to understand what it is, why it’s relevant to
Free loan shark and scams webinar for service users
The Torbay and Devon Safeguarding Adults Partnership would like to invite you join a webinar by Dave Monk from Stop Loan Sharks. This will be held 11.00am – 12.00 pm on
The unseen app makes reporting to the modern slavery & exploitation helpline even easier
The Unseen app provides a simple guide to recognising the signs of modern slavery and human trafficking and is a channel to report concerns in confidence. There is also a
Blog by England Illegal Money Lending Team
Stop Loan Sharks Week 2023 – Behind the Mask #StopLoanSharksWeek2023 #Behindthemask Loan sharks have many faces – make sure you know who’s behind the mask What does a
National campaign unmasks loan shark predators hiding behind a friendly face
National campaign unmasks loan shark predators hiding behind a friendly face People struggling for money should beware of false friends offering to help out this Halloween, as a new
My friend turned out to be a loan shark
Case study 1: An unemployed single dad of one started taking loans from someone he thought was a family friend to make ends meet after being refused credit elsewhere.