Safeguarding Adults Week 2023 – Exploitation
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Exploitation is the deliberate manipulative or abuse of power used to have control over another person, usually for financial gain. This can be for a range of reasons including personal, financial or sexual.

We have gather together some links to various resources that provide information on some of the types of exploitation

Learning Disability Devon’s information on [cuckooing](https://www.learningdisabilitydevon.org.uk/cuckooing-is-a-crime-it-is-when-someone-uses-your-home-to-sell-or-keep-drugs/)

Life Rooms, in association with Merseyside Police have produced a YouTube video on [mate crime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjwWLxA19k)

View our information and podcast on [predatory marriage](https://www.devonsafeguardingadultspartnership.org.uk/exploitation/predatory-marriage/)

ARC (the Association for Real Change) have produced a booklet [Friend or Fake Booklet](https://arcuk.org.uk/safetynet/files/2012/08/Friend-or-Fake-Booklet.pdf)

Here is a Learning Disability Devon easy read document around cuckooing [Cuckooing – this is when someone who you think is your friend uses your home to sell or hide drugs. – Learning Disability Devon](https://www.learningdisabilitydevon.org.uk/cuckooing-is-a-crime-it-is-when-someone-uses-your-home-to-sell-or-keep-drugs/)

On this website we have some information on [sexual exploitation](https://www.devonsafeguardingadultspartnership.org.uk/exploitation/sexual-exploitation/)

Safer Devon have put together a toolkit  [Preventing Exploitation Toolkit](https://www.preventingexploitationtoolkit.org.uk/)