Neglect or Acts of Omission

Ignoring medical, emotional or physical care needs. Failure to provide access to appropriate health, care and support or educational services. The withholding of the necessities of life, such as medication, adequate nutrition and heating.
Trafford Safeguarding Partnership

Everyone working within your Religious Life Group should ensure they are familiar with the Indicators and Signs of Neglect or Acts of Omission…

Failure to provide or allow access to food, shelter, clothing, heating, stimulation and activity, personal or medical care

Providing care in a way that the person dislikes

Failure to administer medication as prescribed

Refusal of access to visitors

Not taking account of individuals’ cultural, religious or ethnic needs

Not taking account of educational, social and recreational needs

Ignoring or isolating the person

Preventing the person from making their own decisions

Preventing access to glasses, hearing aids, dentures, etc.

Failure to ensure privacy

If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth
Bessel A. van der Kolk