CQC Quality Statement
Theme 3 – How the local authority ensures safety in the system: Safeguarding
Royal Borough of Greenwich statement
We work with people to understand what being safe means to them as well as our partners on the best way to achieve this. We concentrate on improving people’s lives while protecting their right to live in safety, free from bullying harassment, abuse, discrimination, avoidable harm and neglect. We make sure we share concerns quickly and appropriately.
What people expect
I feel safe and supported to understand and manage any risks.
GREENWICH SPECIFIC INFORMATION
Royal Borough of Greenwich Safeguarding Adults Reviews Policy and Procedure
KEY POINTS
- The Care Act 2014 requires The Royal Borough of Greenwich Safeguarding Adults Board to arrange for a Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) to be held in the circumstances set out under the Care Act 2014.
- The overriding aim of a SAR is to promote effective learning to prevent future deaths or serious harm from taking place. Within this there are three purposes the SAR must fulfil:
- to establish whether there are lessons to be learned from the case about the way in which the GSAB, its members and other persons with relevant functions, professionals and agencies work together to safeguard adults with needs for care and support;
- to establish what those lessons are, how they will be acted upon and what is expected to change as a result;
- to improve inter-agency working and better safeguarding of adults at risk including the review of procedures where there may have been failures.
- SARs are not inquiries into the cause of death or injury. Nor are they inquiries into who is responsible for the death or injury. Where those inquiries are required, they are undertaken by the Coroner or the police or other relevant agency.
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