Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

The Care and support statutory guidance identifies ten types of abuse. These are:

Physical abuse
Domestic violence or abuse
Sexual abuse
Psychological or emotional abuse
Financial or material abuse
Modern slavery
Discriminatory abuse
Organisational or institutional abuse
Neglect or acts of omission
Self-neglect

[Please click on the link to the source of this definition above (https://www.scie.org.uk/safeguarding/adults/introduction/types-and-indicators-of-abuse) for full definitions and indicators of each type of abuse. Alternatively this information is available in the glossary definition of each category.]