Safeguarding Adult Reviews

A Safeguarding Adult Review can help practitioners understand in greater depth whether there are any lessons that can be learnt to improve practice in the future.

The Care Act 2014 places a duty on Safeguarding Adult Boards to arrange a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) when:

The case involves an adult with care and support needs (whether or not the local authority was meeting those needs).

There is reasonable cause for concern about how the safeguarding Adults Board, its members or organisations worked together to safeguard the adult.

AND

The adult died (including death by suicide) and the Safeguarding Adults Board knows/suspects this resulted from abuse or neglect (whether or not it knew about this before the adult died).

OR

The adult is still alive but the Safeguarding Adults Board knows or suspects they have experienced serious abuse or neglect, sustained potentially life threatening injury, serious sexual abuse or serious impairment of health or development as a result of abuse or neglect.