Safeguarding Adults Reviews

A Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) is a review into a case where an adult with care and support needs has died or been seriously harmed and abuse or neglect is known or suspected. SARs are carried out where Safeguarding Adults Boards identify there are concerns about how organisations worked together or there may be learning to support improvements in safeguarding.

The aim of a SAR is to establish any lessons learnt from the case and to identify how these have, or will be, acted upon and lead to sustainable improvements to practice and the prevention of death, serious injury or harm to adults.

Our SAR Policy can be found here.

SAR referral forms can be found on the Board Members' section of the website. If you are not a Board member and need to make a referral for a SAR, please contact the office for a referral form - lrspbo@leics.gov.uk. (This is not a referral for safeguarding support – for safeguarding concerns, please use the report concerns button at the top of this page).

SARs completed under the Care Act 2014 by the Leicestershire and Rutland Safeguarding Adults Board will be published here for one year.

SARs are also published on the National Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) Library developed by the National Network for Chairs of Adult Safeguarding Boards, including previously published Leicestershire & Rutland Safeguarding Adults Reviews.

The Leicestershire and Rutland Safeguarding Adults Board have today (Wednesday 14th February 2024) published a report following a Safeguarding Adults Review concerning an adult with care and support needs.

The Leicestershire and Rutland Safeguarding Adults Board have today ( Thursday 21st March 2024) published a report following a Safeguarding Adults Review concerning an adult with care and support needs.

The chair of the Leicestershire and Rutland Safeguarding Adults Board, Seona Douglas, said:
"We would like to offer our condolences to Angela's family, it is clear she was loved and is missed by them.
We welcome publication of this review. We have already used its findings to strengthen the way agencies work together to protect vulnerable adults in Leicestershire and Rutland."

The Leicestershire and Rutland Safeguarding Adults Board have today (Thursday 18th April 2024) published a report following a Safeguarding Adults Review concerning an adult who tragically died.

Learning from local reviews and audits is shared in numerous ways, including via our Safeguarding Matters newsletter and our 7-Minute Briefings.

If anyone wishes to discuss any previously published reviews, then they should contact the Safeguarding Partnerships Business Office on 0116 305 7130 or email lrspbo@leics.gov.uk