Guidance
This section of the site provides information on preventing, recognising and responding to cruelty and harassment of people with learning disabilities.
- Supportive Communities: Promoting best practice in bringing communities together.
- Types of incidents: Defining the problem; the types of cruelty faced by people with learning disabilities.
- Safeguarding: Safeguarding procedures, recording and sharing information and monitoring risk.
- Supporting: Encouraging incident reporting and supporting victims and witnesses.
- Criminal action: Police and prosecutors taking action to deal with criminal offending.
- Civil action: Housing organisations and local authorities taking action on incidents using civil powers.
- Resources: Good practice and problem-solving examples, serious-case reviews, policy documents, research, templates and Easy-Read resources.
Foundation publications
ActionAgainstCruelty is based on ongoing research into the lives and experiences of people with learning disabilities. Here you can access the research reports that have helped to shape the site.
Create-ability: the changing meaning of art and artistry (2011)