Safeguarding Adults Reviews

A Safeguarding Adults Review is a process for all partner agencies to identify the lessons that can be learned from particularly complex or serious safeguarding adults cases, where an adult in vulnerable circumstances has died or been seriously injured and abuse or neglect has been suspected. As a result of a detailed review, the Panel recommends changes to improve practice and services in the light of these lessons.

Find out more about Safeguarding Adults Reviews

Posters and leaflets

7 minute briefings

Easy read information

Conferences and training events

Best Practice  - adult safeguarding with people who are homeless

The need for a whole system conversation with the Safeguarding Adults Board as the guiding presence was identified by Michael Preston-Shoot in a September 2021 presentation.

Access the slides: Best Practice Adult Safeguarding with People who are Homeless.

Whole family approach to safeguarding 

The aim of this 2018 conference was to promote a whole family approach to safeguarding through multi-agency collaboration, ensuring best practice.

Safeguarding Adults Board Conference: Self Neglect and Hoarding

Over 200 professionals met for the Safeguarding Adults Board Conference: Self Neglect and Hoarding in November 2016.

View the presentation from keynote speaker Professor Suzy Braye Effective Practice in Self Neglect: Messages from Research.

Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs)

The purpose of Domestic Homicide Reviews is to consider the circumstances that led to a death and to identify where responses to the situation could be improved in the future. Lessons learned from the reviews will help agencies to improve their response to domestic abuse and to work better together to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.

Videos

Adult safeguarding films by SCIE

Watch a series of adult safeguarding films on Youtube by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).

Safeguarding Awareness for Volunteers

The purpose of this short video is to raise your awareness of safeguarding for children and adults.

Safeguarding Awareness for Volunteers by Waltham Forest Council

The spoken word

The Cheshire East Safeguarding Adults Board has produced a film to show how important it is to speak up about adult abuse. The spoken words focus on the service users own life experiences and sends a powerful message to Stop Adult Abuse.

The Spoken Word by Cheshire East Safeguarding Adults Board

Hoarding

The Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board has produced a film to raise awareness of hoarding and to guide professionals on what kinds of interventions seem to work the best so that the people affected (both the person who hoards and other people whose lives this impacts upon) get the support that they need.

Keith's story: a personal and touching film about hoarding by the Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board

Safeguarding from financial abuse

The Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board has produced a film about financial abuse.

Alan's story - safeguarding from financial abuse by the Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board

Risking happiness

Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group and Gloucestershire County Council have produced a film about our attitude to risk. The purpose of the play has been to stimulate conversations and promote healthy discussions about our attitude to risk in our daily lives.

Risking happiness - by Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group and Gloucestershire County Council

Controlling and coercive behaviour

Cut your strings - Dorset Police campaign

Professional curiosity

Bitesize Guide: Professional Curiousity from Waltham Forest Council on Vimeo.

A video about professional curiosity by Waltham Forest Council

Introductions to Mental Capacity Act

Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and Dorset County Hospital have produced three films below about making mental capacity assessments. These three all relate to the Mental Capacity Act and the purpose of these films has been to stimulate conversations and promote healthy discussions about how mental capacity assessments are made.

Introduction to Mental Capacity Act by Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and Dorset County Hospital

Self-Neglect

Self-Neglect by Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and Dorset County Hospital

Flu Jab 

Flu Jab by Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and Dorset County Hospital

Improving Practice - Think Family

A short film by Waltham Forest Council Promoting a Think Family approach

Links and resources 

The following information provides some useful background resources and links to key partners. 

Waltham Forest Council

Professional Curiousity resource pack