...Heather Roach Purpose The author, who is Chair of Norfolk’s Safeguarding Adults’ Board (SAB) reflects on the impact of a Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) and the actions that resulted. The purpose of the paper is to provide an insight into a significant SAR and the resulting actions desinged...

...Deborah Foss Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 in safeguarding adults at risk of abuse and neglect. The author has undertaken a thematic review of Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) commissioned in England and Adult Practice Reviews (APRs...

...Karl Mason Purpose The purpose of this paper is to interrogate and develop the conceptualisation of discriminatory abuse in safeguarding adults policy and practice beyond the current interpersonal definition. The paper draws on Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) that refer to discriminatory abuse...

... principles (Gale et al., 2013), this was derived deductively from issues identified in the research literature and Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) as challenges for SABs and practitioners. Its category headings correspond to those used to structure the findings section in this article...

...Stephen Martineau; Jill Manthorpe Purpose This paper presents the results of a thematic analysis of safeguarding adults reviews (SARs) where homelessness was a factor to illuminate and improve safeguarding practice and the support of adults who are homeless in England. Design/methodology...

... improvement challenging. Practical implications – Answering the question why is a significant challenge for safeguarding adults reviews (SARs). Different approaches have been recommended, some rooted in systems theory. The theoretical formulations here extend the lens of systemic analysis...

... obliged to do so, or to publish the outcome. The Care Act 2014, which reforms adult social care and adult safeguarding law in England and Wales, now places a duty on LSABs (henceforth constituted on a statutory basis) to carry out and publish safeguarding adult reviews where serious abuse or neglect has...

... can be contacted at: michael.preston-shoot@beds.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Service improvement Care Act 2014 Policy and practice development Safeguarding adults reviews Self-neglect Serious case reviews Subsequently, a second, cross-case approach was taken...