Older people face significant risks of harm and abuse perpetrated by those in a position of trust, and require specialised policy and service delivery responses. Yet, there is an absence of convincing data to depict the experience of abuse in older age in the UK.

This poses a problem to developing effective evidence-based policies and to monitoring progress on the issue.In the UK and internationally, older people are excluded from datasets. In general terms, age-caps in data gathering and the lack of disaggregation between older age groups are key problems.

On data concerning violence and abuse, there is a reported global scarcity and where countries are supported in measuring gender-based violence, often no such data collection guidelines exist for monitoring violence and abuse in later life.

This webinar seeks to explore the issues of data capture and analysis, look to models of good practice, and understand future developments.