20 Ill-treatment or wilful neglect: care worker offence
Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (2015 c 2) | Legislation

Offences involving ill-treatment or wilful neglect

20  Ill-treatment or wilful neglect: care worker offence

(1)     It is an offence for an individual who has the care of another individual by virtue of being a care worker to ill-treat or wilfully to neglect that individual.

(2)     An individual guilty of an offence under this section is liable—

(a)     on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or a fine (or both);

(b)     on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding [the general limit in a magistrates' court] or a fine (or both).

(3)     “Care worker” means an individual who, as paid work, provides—

(a)     health care for an adult or child, other than excluded health care, or

(b)     social

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