Social Worker Sharing

Self-neglect is something we are coming across more often than I have ever experienced before. It is something I feel like people are more aware of and more concerned about. We receive safeguarding reports about it but it can be very difficult to establish why someone is self neglecting or even get them to see that is what is happening. Statistics show us that self neglect prevalence rates of 116-121 per every 100,000 of the population although it is likely that in reality it is much higher than that as it is under reported. This sounds like a low number when you look at it generally but it is definitely on the rise and there does not seem to be consistency across the board about the approach to be used or whether it should be reported as safeguarding or not. This has meant that there is an unfortunate amount of people who are being discussed in Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) because referrals were not made to relevant authorities meaning that no support was provided and they e...