Evolution not Revolution
Learning from Reviews: Level 1 (SAR Edition)
Level 1 is a 3-hour introductory CPD pathway exploring the purpose of Safeguarding Adults Reviews and how learning can improve safeguarding practice.
- 3 hours CPD
- 6 stages
Free with a Portal account
Free with a Portal account. New to the Portal? You can create a free account from the sign-in page, and you will come straight back to the first stage.
Build a practical understanding of Safeguarding Adults Reviews and how they contribute to safer, stronger practice. Explore their purpose and statutory basis, learn how to identify meaningful learning from a review, examine recurring themes from national SAR analysis, and consider how learning can move beyond recommendations into sustained changes in practice and systems.
Who it is for
- Practitioners
- Supervisors and managers
- Teams
- Students and newly qualified
- People, families and carers
What you will be able to do
- Explain the purpose and statutory basis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews.
- Identify meaningful and transferable learning within a SAR.
- Recognise key themes emerging from national SAR analysis.
- Explore how practice, interagency working, organisations and wider systems influence safeguarding outcomes.
- Distinguish between completing recommendations and embedding meaningful change.
- Apply SAR learning reflectively to their own practice and safeguarding context.
What you will explore
Stage 1: Why SARs Matter
Why do we undertake Safeguarding Adults Reviews, and what are they intended to achieve?
Explore the purpose and statutory basis of SARs, including the Care Act 2014 threshold and the wider learning function of reviews. Consider how a learning-focused approach differs from blame or simply identifying what went wrong.
Complete each stage to reveal the next. 5 more stages to come.