What is a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR)? According to Part One Section 44 of the Care Act 2014 Safeguarding Adult Boards (i.e. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adult Partnership Board) must undertake a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) when: An adult in its area with care and support needs (i.e. an adult at risk) has died as…
What is a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR)? According to Part One Section 44 of the Care Act 2014 Safeguarding Adult Boards (i.e. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adult Partnership Board) must undertake a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) when: An adult in its area with care and support needs (i.e. an adult at risk) has died as…
Who was John? John was a 51 year old man when he died in December 2018. His cause of death is recorded as sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, a previous traumatic brain injury and alcohol dependency syndrome John had an extensive history with agencies and was described in agency records as “presenting with significant cognitive…
What is a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR)? According to Part One Section 44 of the Care Act 2014 Safeguarding Adult Boards (i.e. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adult Partnership Board) must undertake a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) when: An adult in its area with care and support needs (i.e. an adult at risk) has died as…
What is a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR)? According to Part One Section 44 of the Care Act 2014 Safeguarding Adult Boards (i.e. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adult Partnership Board) must undertake a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) when: An adult in its area with care and support needs (i.e. an adult at risk) has died as…
What is a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR)? According to Part One Section 44 of the Care Act 2014 Safeguarding Adult Boards (i.e. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adult Partnership Board) must undertake a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) when: An adult in its area with care and support needs (i.e. an adult at risk) has died as…
What is a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR)? The Care Act 2014 statutory guidance says that a Safeguarding Adult Board must arrange a SAR when the following criteria is met: When an adult in its area dies as a result of abuse or neglect, whether known or suspected, and there is concern that partner agencies could…
Introduction A Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) was commissioned by Cambridgeshire Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) following the death in 2016 of a woman in her mid-20s. Services had been involved with her since early adolescence, and the SAB suspected that neglect, and possibly abuse, had contributed to her death. Katherine was immobile and lived as a…
Highlighting Lessons from a Safeguarding Adults Review Where There Were Multiple Abusers in One Care Setting (Care Home A) This Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) considered the serious failures in care in relation to older people within a residential and nursing home, and explored how a sub-culture of cruelty and disrespect arose that led to the…
In 2012, MX, who was 78 and had been living independently, was admitted to hospital after a fall, there were some complications, and on discharge she was placed in a care home. She was assessed as needing residential, not nursing home care, but as there was no bed available in the residential part of the…
