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  • Intro; Title Page; Contents; Introduction: Issues and challenges for safeguarding in the social and health care context; Legal framework of adult safeguarding; A-Z list; Note on terminology used in references; A Abuse; Acts of care or treatment (mental capacity), see Mental capacity; Adult protection; Advance decisions; Advocacy; Alarm, see Harassment, alarm or distress; Anti-social behaviour; Appropriate adult; Assault; Assessment (Care Act), see Care Act 2014; Assisted suicide; B Barred list; Best evidence, see Witnesses; Best interests, see Mental capacity; Brexit; Burglary
  • C Care Act 2014Care and health providers; Care Quality Commission; Carers (Care Act); Choking; Civil law; Civil orders and injunctions; Coercive behaviour, see Controlling or coercive behaviour; Cold-calling, see Rogue trading; Commissioning of services; Concealment; Confidentiality; Conflicts of interest within adult safeguarding; Contact with people lacking capacity; Controlling or coercive behaviour; Cooperation (Care Act); Coroners; Corporate financial abuse, see Financial abuse: corporate; County lines; Court of Protection; Courts, see Remedies; Covert medication
  • Crime and Security Act 2010, see Domestic violence: protection notices and ordersCriminal behaviour orders, see Anti-social behaviour; Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, see Wilful neglect or ill-treatment; Criminal law; Criminal record certificates; Crown Prosecution Service; Cuckooing; Culture of care; Cyberbullying; D Data protection; Deprivation of liberty; Deputies; Direct payments; Disclosure and Barring Service, see Criminal record certificates; Barred list; Distress, see Harassment, alarm or distress; Do not resuscitate orders; Domestic violence
  • Duty of candour, see Care Quality CommissionE Elephant in the adult safeguarding room, see National Health Service; Employment Rights Act 1996, see Whistleblowing; Endangering life by wilful negligence; Enduring power of attorney, see Lasting power of attorney; Eligibility (Care Act); Enquiries (Care Act); Equality Act 2010; Estoppel, relying on assurances or promises, see Proprietary estoppel; F False accounting; False imprisonment; False or misleading information; Family Law Act 1996; Fear of violence, see Harassment, alarm or distress; Female genital mutilation; Fiduciary duty
  • Financial abuseForced marriage; Forgery; Fraud; Fraudulent calumny; Freedom of Information Act 2000; G General Medical Council; Gifts; Grievous bodily harm; Guidance (Care Act); H Harassment, alarm or distress; Harm, see Enquiries; Hate crime, see Crown Prosecution Service: aggravating features; Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC); Health and Safety Executive; Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, see Care Quality Commission; Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001, see Health and Care Professions Council; Health providers