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SAR Referral Form & Guidance

What are Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs)?

Adobe PDF Document

SAR 7-Minute Briefing 

This guide outlines what SARs are, why they are done, when they are undertaken, and the process for referring them to the Sutton Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB).

How to Refer a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) case in Sutton

Word Document

SSAB SAR referral form as a Word document 

Completed forms to be sent to ssab@sutton.gov.uk.

Sutton SAB Safeguarding Adult Review Protocols and Procedures

Local Protocols and Procedures for how Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR)s are undertaken by the Sutton SAB.

Adobe PDF Document

SSAB SAR Protocol 

Adobe PDF Document

SAR Decision Tree 

This decision tree can be used to make a decision on whether a case meets criteria for a SAR.

Adobe PDF Document

SAR Easy Read Leaflet 

Adobe PDF Document

SAR Easy Read Guide 

National SAR Guidance and Guidelines

Adobe PDF Document

National SAB: Essential Guide to SARs 

Final document TBC

Adobe PDF Document

Developing Effective SAR Learning Events (Research in Practice, 2021) 

Adobe PDF Document

SAR Quality Markers Handbook 

SCIE SAR Quality Markers Handbook

Adobe PDF Document

SAR Quality Markers Checklist Tool 

SCIE SAR Quality Markers Comprehensive Checklist Tool

Interface of SARs and other Review Types/Processes

Adobe PDF Document

National SAB Network Guidance: Interface between SARs and Coronial Processes 

Adobe PDF Document

How Multi-Review Cases are Managed in Sutton 

SUTTON JOINT REVIEW TRIAGE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (Jan 2026)


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SARs under the Care Act 2014

Sutton Primary Care Networks
St Anthony's Hospital
Community Action Sutton
Health Watch Sutton
London Fire Brigade
Sutton Mental Health Foundation
Sutton 1in4 Network
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Speak Up Sutton
Advocacy for all
National Probation Service
Age UK
Metropolitan Police
Sutton Housing Partnership
Sutton Local Safeguarding Children Partnership
South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
South West London NHS Trust ICB
London Borough of Sutton Council
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust

Sutton Safeguarding Adults Board

1st Floor,
Civic Offices,
St Nicholas Way,
Sutton,
SM1 1EA

ssab@sutton.gov.uk

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