A Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) is a mandatory, multi-agency process to learn from cases where an adult with care needs suffered serious harm or died due to abuse or neglect, focusing on how organizations worked together, to improve future safeguarding practices and prevent recurrence, not to blame individuals. These reviews, introduced by the Care Act 2014, examine what could have been done better to protect the adult, promoting systemic learning and better inter-agency cooperation.

SAR

Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) alert law enforcement to potential instances of money laundering or terrorist financing. SARs are made by financial institutions and other professionals such as solicitors, accountants and estate agents and are a vital source of intelligence not only on economic crime but on a wide range of criminal activity. They provide information and intelligence from the private sector that would otherwise not be visible to law enforcement. SARs can also be submitted by private individuals where they have suspicion or knowledge of money laundering or terrorist financing.

SARs are not crime reports, and submitting a SAR does not replace the need to make a crime report to the police or report the matter to another relevant government department or organisation.