Safeguarding Adult Review Quality Markers

Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) Quality Markers are a tool to support people involved in commissioning, conducting and quality-assuring SARs to know what good looks like. Covering the whole process, they provide a consistent and robust approach to SARs.

The Quality Markers are based on statutory requirements, established principles of effective reviews and incident investigations, as well as practice experience and ethical considerations.

The SAR Quality Markers assume the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal, as well as the Six Principles of Safeguarding that underpin all adult safeguarding work (Empowerment; Prevention; Proportionate; Protection; Partnership; Accountable). These principles therefore permeate the Quality Markers explicitly and implicitly.

Introduction to SAR Quality Markers

SCIE is pleased to relaunch the Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) Quality Markers. First published in 2018, they have now been refreshed and updated.

Update: April 2022 | What are they? | How can they be used? | How do they help? | How are they structured? | Roles and functions |
List of the 15 SAR Quality Markers

Setting up the review

Find out about setting up the review.

• Referral
• Decision making
• Informing the person, family and social network
• Clarity of purpose
• Commissioning

Running the review

Find out about running the review.

• Governance
• Process management
• Parallel processes
• Assembling information
• Practitioners’ involvement
• Involvement of the person, family members and network
• Analysis

Output, action, impact

Find out about the outputs, actions and impacts of the review.

• The Report
• Publication and dissemination
• Action and impact

SAR Quality Markers handbook

The Safeguarding Adults Review Quality Markers handbook supports the Safeguarding Adults Review Quality Markers comprehensive checklist.

• Take a look at the SAR Quality Markers handbook

Training sessions

View recordings of our training sessions that support use of the SAR Quality Markers.

• Decision making (QM 2)
• Commissioning (QM 5)
• Safety science (QM 12)
• Publication and dissemination (QM 14)
• Logic model / theory of change (QM 15)

Quality Champions

Put yourself forward to become a SAR Quality Champion.

• Find out more about Quality Champions