Cognitive impairment and exploitation: connecting fragments of a bigger picture through data.

Background: Exploitation poses a significant public health concern. This paper highlights 'jigsaw pieces' of statistical evidence, indicating cognitive impairment as a pre- or co-existing factor in exploitation.

Methods: We reviewed English Safeguarding Adults Collection (SAC) data and Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) from 2017 to 22.

Cognitive Impairment as A Vulnerability for Exploitation: A Scoping Review.

Exploitation is a form of abuse that occurs when one person unfairly manipulates another for profit or personal gain. Various individual and social characteristics have the potential to increase an individual's risk of being exploited. Cognitive impairment is one potential vulnerability factor that has received minimal research attention.

Risk of forced marriage amongst people with learning disabilities in the UK: Perspectives of South Asian carers.

Background: People with intellectual disabilities are at increased risk of forced marriage compared to those without intellectual disabilities. In the UK, this risk is particularly, though not exclusively, associated with South Asian communities and is linked to the desire to secure long-term care.

Method: Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were undertaken with South Asian parents and family carers (n = 22) of adults with intellectual disability and the resultant data thematically analysed.

Staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential settings for adults with intellectual disabilities.

Background: A common factor in the abuse of people with intellectual disabilities in residential settings has been the failure of care staff and frontline managers to recognise poor practice at an early stage and prevent its development into a culture of abuse. In this context, staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities were explored.

Method: Semi-structured interviews (n = 56) were undertaken with care staff and frontline managers working across England.

Acquired Brain Injury, Social Work and the Challenges of Personalisation.

Increasing numbers of adults in the UK are living with acquired brain injury (ABI), with those affected requiring immediate medical care and longer-term rehabilitative and social care. Despite their social needs, limited attention has been paid to people with ABI within the social work literature and their needs are also often overlooked in policy and guidance. As a means of highlighting the challenge that ABI presents to statutory social work, this paper will start by outlining the common characteristics of ABI and consider the (limited) relevant policy guidance.