Making perpetrators of abuse criminally responsible adds a new dynamic to the safeguarding debate

What is it about?

Acknowledging that vulnerable adults need safeguarding acknowledges that there are people who would inflict abuse and/or harm upon them. Making abusers criminally responsible for their actions provides a new dynamic to the safeguarding adults debate. Suspects, when not processed in the criminal justice system, will be able to continue to offend against the vulnerable in society.

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