Resource Library
Welcome to The Library: an area where you will find a growing resource of useful information related to Vulnerability.

Recent Guides

Third Party specialist content

Scams

• Friends Against Scams website

• Friends Against Scams Protection From Scams Guide (PDF)

• Financial Scamming Defining Terms 

• Financial Scamming and Fraud

• Age UK Scam Prevention and Support toolkit 

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Abuse and coercion

• Money Advice Service: Protection Against Financial Abuse

Decision making

• Advance Care Planning 

• Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment

• Next of Kin: Understanding decision-making authorities

• Next of Kin video by Professor Keith Brown

• National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework

• Guidance on the use of the Mental Capacity Act for decisions regarding clinical treatment and care: An introduction

• The Mental Capacity Act requirements for clinical decisions regarding treatment and care

• The Mental Capacity Act requirements when an individual lacks the mental capacity to consent to treatment and care
   

Safeguarding

• Safeguarding practice for those at risk of financial abuse from scamming
   

Regulatory commentary

• FCA: Guidance for firms on the fair treatment of vulnerable customers

• FCA: Treating Vulnerable Customers Fairly

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Publications by the Financial Vulnerability Taskforce

• ​APPG Report - Theft and Fraud within Families

• Financial Abuse warning signs (checklist)

• Sudden Wealth - consumer guide

• Sudden Wealth - adviser guide

• Lasting Powers of Attorney - consumer guide

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Third Party Guides 

• Children experiencing sudden wealth - a practitioner’s guide

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