Procedure for Safeguarding Adult Reviews
Purpose
The SAR is a statutory learning-focused process, designed to have practical value by illuminating barriers and enablers to good practice, untangling systemic risks, and progressing improvement activities.
The purpose of a SAR is to determine where multi-agency working went well and what might have been done differently that could contribute towards preventing similar harm or death reoccurring in the future. It therefore requires outcomes that:
- establish what lessons can be learnt from the particular circumstances of a case in which professionals and agencies were involved in the care and support of an adult at risk of abuse and / or neglect
- review the effectiveness of safeguarding systems, procedures and practice both of individual organisations and multi-agency arrangements
- inform and improve future practice by acting on the findings (developing best practice across all organisations)
- highlight any good systems, procedures, practice or opportunities to improve, identified within the review
- lead to recommendations to be implemented
The purpose of the review is not to identify or apportion blame or hold any individual or organisation to account as other processes exist for this, including coronial procedures, criminal proceedings, disciplinary procedures, employment law and professional regulation.