Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions of social care workers there have been for abusing older adults in care in each of the last five years.

It is not possible to identify the number of social care workers that were prosecuted for abusing older adults in care in each of the last 5 years from the broader offences:

• Care provider ill-treat / wilfully neglect an individual or breach duty of care
• Ill-treatment or neglect of a person lacking capacity by anyone responsible for that person’s care

The offences do not specify whether or not the defendant was a social worker nor do they specify the age of the victim. Detailed information may be held on individual court records but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access these individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.