Please provide the following information:
1) Data on the total number of adult safeguarding referrals for alleged abuse received in each of the five calendar years between 2017 and 2022.
2) Data on the number of adult safeguarding referrals for alleged abuse which cite alleged financial abuse as a referral reason, received in each of the five calendar years between 2017 and 2022.
| Calendar Year | Number of Concerns Started – All types of risk | Number of Financial Abuse Concerns Started |
| 2019 | 4480 | 799 |
| 2020 | 5805 | 827 |
| 2021 | 7281 | 872 |
| 2022 | 7452 | 805 |
The above table shows the total number of safeguarding adult concerns which were raised with the Local Authority and then of these, how many were pertaining to an allegation of financial abuse.
Please note, we have only been able to provide information for four years, not five, and are unable to provide data for 2018 as we have an incomplete data set due to changes in our forms.