What can the Commissioner do about maltreatment of older people?
Working within the existing legal framework of protection for vulnerable adults, the Commissioner is able to review and make recommendations about the way in which a local authority, or health body, implements the policies and procedures that it has put in place for dealing with elder abuse. The Commissioner could hold authorities to account if she found that they were not doing what they should. The Commissioner is also able to review, and make recommendations about, the adequacy and effectiveness of law for the protection of vulnerable older people and ask the Assembly Government to consider making changes if she thinks they are needed.
