Section 44 of the Care Act 2014 places a statutory responsibility on the Safeguarding Adult Board (SAB) to conduct Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SAR) under certain circumstances.
The SAB is required to arrange a Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) where there is reasonable cause for concern about how the SAB, and its members or some other person with relevant functions, worked together and the adult at risk died or experienced serious harm or neglect potentially resulting from this. SABs may arrange for a SAR in any other situation involving an adult in its area with care and support needs, whether they are being met by the Local Authority or not. The SAB may also commission a SAR in other circumstances where it feels it would be useful, including learning from ‘near misses’.
SARs are not intended to assign blame but are crucial tools to identify learning for the partnership (both as a partnership and as individual agencies) to prevent future harm.
You can find Enfield’s published SARs – as well as 7 minute briefings on published SARs and key topics and training resources.