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Who is vulnerable?
— Adult social care and modern slavery | | Author(s) | Gary Craig, Stephen Clay |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 19, no 1, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 21-32 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/jap |
| Keywords | Social work ; Elder abuse ; Protection [vulnerable adults] ; Policy ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The Modern Slavery Act 2015 focuses attention forms of modern slavery (human trafficking and forced labour), within the UK. The contemporaneous Care Act 2014 identifies modern slavery as a new form of risk within adult social care, listing forms of abuse and vulnerability. However, it does not consider whether those providing care may themselves be vulnerable to forms of modern slavery. In this paper, the authors describe the history of the development of modern slavery legislation in the UK, and outline key provisions of the Care Act, illustrated with real-life cases. The analysis suggests that adult social care - characterised by informality, fragmentation and vulnerability - is one where instances of modern slavery may be more common than has been considered to date. Though relatively modest, the data collected suggest that a thorough investigation should be undertaken into the possibility of modern slavery taking place within the realm of adult social care. Data were collected through a snowball process, by a survey to relevant groups of individual and organisations. A more rigorous investigation is required to examine the extent of modern slavery within adult social care. To conclude, the training of those responsible for the regulation and/or management of adult social care needs to ensure that they are fully equipped to understand the nature of modern slavery, and how to identify its symptoms and victims. There is also a need for heightened awareness of those close to people being cared for, that they may also identify the symptoms of modern slavery. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170324201 A |
| Classmark | IG: QNT: CA3G: QAD: 8 |
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