Safeguarding Adults Reviews: Prompting practice and policy

Jill Manthorpe; Stephen Martineau

doi:10.1921/swssr.v18i3.975

Authors

Jill Manthorpe King’s College London
Stephen Martineau King’s College London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v18i3.975

Abstract

Abstract: As a whole there was remarkably little controversy in England over the Care Act 2014, once debates over funding caps had been kicked into the long grass. After all, who could oppose the idea of better information, clearer entitlements, and more support for carers? Among the non-contentious areas were specific proposals for Serious Case Reviews (SCRs) to become Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs). In light of the many concerns in children’s services about the dominance of SCRs in policy and practice debates this lack of interest and discussion may seem surprising. In this paper we explore why such reviews concerning adults are largely seen as non-contentious and frame our analysis around four different ‘prompts’; those from Parliament, from earlier SCRs, from practice analysis and from practice development. We draw on our own wider research programme on Adult SCRs and subsequently SARs. This programme of research has explored different facets of the review process and undertaken different thematic analyses by location or user group.

Author Biographies

Jill Manthorpe, King’s College London

Professor, Social Care Workforce Research Unit,

Stephen Martineau, King’s College London

Research Associate, Social Care Workforce Research Unit,

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