To ask for some urgent advice for a friend?

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Very very long and messed up story about my friend and her sister but I'll try and make it as short as possible.

My friend, let's call her P, is from by far the most dysfunctional family I know, 8 kids, wife/kid beater dad, 2 kids already dead from suicide/drugs.

P's little sister, let's call her A, had a brain tumour as a child. She recovered but is disabled although was of sound mind. P took it onto herself to look after A for many years, but then met her partner and wanted to move away, A wanted to stay in her home town, so her mum moved into her home (A has her own home).

Anyway the mum and the brothers are complete alcoholics and also have an illegal growing industry in A's house. A has now taken a turn for the worse and looks like she has alcohol induced dementia.

A is in hospital (been on a ward for 10 weeks) and desperately unhappy, confused etc. The family are desperate for her to go home but P and her other sister don't think it's safe, she was drinking up to a case of lager a day, plus they don't think they will be able to cope.

My friend is not sure what she should be pushing for with the hospital? What kind of options are open to this kind of illness? A is in her 30's, she normally has struggles with mobility and her speech is affected but she can get around and is ok. At the moment she is messing herself and very confused. They think she would be better in a more homely setting but not at home.

My friend and family having limited feedback from the hospital with current situations, just wondered if anyone could help?

They can contact their local social services and ask for an adult assessment re care, capacity, safeguarding etc for A. Anyone can do this and A is entitled to the assessment by law.
It would depend on the results of the assessment what happened next.
They can also report the "growing industry" to the police.

I think the first has already happened before A went to hospital but then they took A to a dodgy foreign country for a 'holiday' to get her out the way.

I don't think P would report.

I would be surprised if the hospital haven't made a safeguarding referral themselves. She is vulnerable and in an abusive environment. You've mentioned alcohol, drugs and them taking her on holiday to 'keep her out of the way' when SS were going to do an assessment. Have you reported any of this to social services or the police? If not, why? This is terrible and if you know about it you have a responsibility to report it. She hasn't got a safe environment to return to, they have pushed her out of her own home. Please do something, you can report anonymously.

The abusive dad is out of the picture now she she's not being abused at home, she is being supplied with vast amounts of alcohol. The hospital know this.

I'm not really here to be asked 'why haven't I reported the family'. I was just wondering what options are available to vulnerable adults? If it's not safe for her to go home, where can she go?