Safeguarding carers: literature review on what is known about carers who are abused by the people they provide care for

What is it about?

We carried out a literature review on what is known about unpaid family carers who are at risk of or have experienced abuse from the people they provide care for and relevant policy/legal and practice responses for affected family carers. We found that although carer harm is serious it is under researched. In addition, the unique needs of unpaid family carers who are at risk of or have experienced abuse, violence and harm from the people they provide care for are subsumed in safeguarding policy/law processes and practice under the auspices of the protection of ‘adults at risk’ rather than the protection of ‘carers at risk’.

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