Safeguarding Adults Services
Multiple Abuses
The following signs are not attributed to a specific category of abuse, but could nevertheless indicate the possibility of abuse from one or multiple categories previously stated:
- difficulty getting access to the individual
- difficulty in interviewing the person alone
- isolation of the individual
- agency hopping
- repeated visits by the person to a General Practitioner or Accident & Emergency Department for no obvious medical reason or where there is no change in medical condition
- reluctance to seek General Practitioner help
- refusal of support by a known or previously trusted carer
- one or more agencies reveal concerns
Safeguarding Adults Services
020 8420 9453
Out of hours - Social Services
The emergency duty social worker is available weekends, bank holidays and between 5pm-9am weekdays.
020 8424 0999
