We work hard to keep vulnerable adults safe from abuse and ill treatment. 'Vulnerable adults' includes people with a learning disability, a mental health problem, a physical disability, a long term illness and those who suffer from dementia. Many older people are vulnerable adults.

Abuse comes in many different forms – financial, sexual, verbal or physical. Basically it is where someone does bad things to a vulnerable adult that makes them frightened or unhappy. Sometimes these acts can be crimes. A person who harms a vulnerable adult can be anyone from a professional person or paid carer to a family member, neighbour or other member of the public.