What is abuse?
Abuse is when someone hurts you or treats you badly. Abuse is always wrong. There are different kinds of abuse.
- physical - hitting or slapping
- sexual - rape or being touched in private places when you don't want it
- psychological - to make you feel bad
- financial - stealing money or your things
- neglect - not being taken care of so you get ill
- discrimination- being treated unfairly because of your race, colour, beliefs, sexuality etc
This is the link to the valuing people website
http://valuingpeople.gov.uk/dynamic/valuingpeople125.jsp
