Adult Safeguarding Day 2024 – 30% of adults have experience of Financial Abuse
81% of Financial Abuse carried out by someone well-known to the victim Call for all adults to keep in control of their money as much as possible Almost a third of adults in Ireland have experience of Financial Abuse (30%) – with the vast majority (81%) of the abuse carried by someone well-known to the […]
Safeguarding Ireland urges people to make an Advance Healthcare Directive
Safeguarding Ireland urges people to make an Advance Healthcare Directive Just 4% have their healthcare wishes recorded for if they lacked capacity Safeguarding Ireland today encouraged more people to put in place and Advance Healthcare Directive – a healthcare plan – as just 4% of people in Ireland have one according to new research from […]
Structures needed to begin establishment of an independent authority for Adult Safeguarding
Safeguarding Ireland welcomes publication of Law Reform Commission report on a framework for Adult Safeguarding The full Law Reform Commission framework for adult safeguarding report & materials can be accessed on their website here. Safeguarding Ireland has today welcomed publication of the Law Reform Commission (LRC) report on adult safeguarding – and said structures must […]
Safeguarding Ireland presents ‘safeguarding roadmap’ to the Oireachtas
Safeguarding Ireland has presented a comprehensive roadmap to address the current gaps in adult safeguarding, to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters. At a hearing in Leinster House this week, Chairperson Patricia Rickard-Clarke set out for politicians the current gaps, and priority steps to strengthen adult safeguarding. She began by referring to the Safeguarding […]
