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Learning for Reviews: Level 2 (SAR Edition)

Learning from Reviews – Level 2 is a 3-hour intermediate CPD pathway using published Safeguarding Adults Reviews to develop deeper critical analysis.

  • 3 hours CPD
  • 6 stages

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Deepen your ability to learn critically from Safeguarding Adults Reviews. Work through published SARs from different areas, examine what was known and understood at the time, explore the interaction between people, practice and systems, and consider what meaningful change should look like. This pathway moves beyond identifying what went wrong to asking why it happened, what influenced professional responses and how learning can be embedded in practice.

Who it is for

  • Practitioners
  • Supervisors and managers
  • Teams

What you will be able to do

  • Critically analyse evidence and findings within a Safeguarding Adults Review.
  • Distinguish fact, interpretation, hindsight and systems-level learning.
  • Analyse how individual, professional, organisational and wider system factors interact.
  • Apply learning from SARs to complex safeguarding issues including capacity, self-neglect, coercion and multiple disadvantage.
  • Identify recurring patterns and transferable learning across different reviews.
  • Evaluate whether recommendations are likely to produce meaningful and sustainable changes in practice.

What you will explore

  1. Stage 1: How to critically read a SAR

    How can I distinguish what happened from interpretation, hindsight and systems learning?

    Use the DD review from Hounslow to develop a more critical way of reading SARs. Separate evidence from interpretation, consider what was known at the time and test whether explanations and recommendations address the conditions that influenced practice.

    • What do we know from the evidence?
    • What was known at the time?
    • What is fact and what is interpretation?
    • Where might hindsight influence our judgement?
    • What contextual or systemic factors shaped practice?
    • Does the recommendation address the problem identified?

Complete each stage to reveal the next. 5 more stages to come.

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