Safeguarding Enquiries for Financial or Material Abuse

1) How many concluded section 42 safeguarding enquiries for 'financial or material abuse' took place for working age adults (18-64 years) for each of the following years:

a) 2018/19

b) 2020/21

c) 2021/2

d) 2022/3

e) 2023/4

f) 2024/25 (if available)

2) How many other safeguarding concerns for 'financial or material abuse' were logged for working age adults (18-64 years) for each of the following years:

a) 2018/19

b) 2020/21

c) 2021/2

d) 2022/3

e) 2023/4

f) 2024/25 (if available)

3) For both of the above questions 1 and 2, please also provide the breakdown of the source of risk of the safeguarding enquiry or concern, i.e. how many relate to a service provider, known to individual, not known to individual. 

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you. 

 How many concluded section 42 safeguarding enquiries for 'financial or material abuse' took place for working age adults (18-64 years) for each of the following years:

a) 2018/2019 – Lincolnshire County Council can't go back this far.

b) 2020/2021 - 135, 29 service providers, 13 unknown to individual, 93 known to individual.

c) 2021/2022 - 71, 8 service providers, 4 unknown to individual, 59 known to individual.

d) 2022/2023 - 57, 7 service providers, 2 unknown to individual, 48 known to individual.

e) 2023/2024 - 56, 4 service providers, 2 unknown to individual, 50 known to individual.

f) 2024/2025 - 96, 13 service providers, 7 unknown to individual, 76 known to individual.

2) How many other safeguarding concerns for 'financial or material abuse' were logged for working age adults (18-64 years) for each of the following years:

a) 2018/19 - we can't go back this far

b) 2020/2021 - 0

c) 2021/2022 - 0

d) 2022/2023 - 2, 1 known to individual, 1 service provider.

e) 2023/2024 - 0

f) 2024/2025 - 3, all 3 known to individual.

3) as above