Reporting abuse

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Can anyone tell me if you can report a safeguarding concern anonymously and to who?
I want to make a report of concern of financial abuse and neglect of a relative, but don't want to make things more difficult for her if daughter finds out where complaint has come from.

Yes, you can. In your case you would either report to a safeguarding officer of an institution (e.g. if she's in a care home) or just go to the police.

@bridgetreilly thank you. She isn't in a care home, but needs to be, but it's being refused by daughter for financial gain.

From the age concern site (www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/protection-from-abuse/#):

You can get support and advice from:

Adult Social Services at yourlocal council
Your GP or other NHS health providers
Action on Elder Abusehelpline:0808 808 8141
The Police - You can call the local police on the 101 non-emergency number or call 999 immediately in an emergency.
Call the Age UK Advice Line 0800 678 1174 if you are concerned about abuse.

You can also report to adult social services or the court of protection depending on the circumstances

Call social services asap, you can remain anonymous.
You're doing the right thing.

Doing this for financial gain is financial abuse and neglect so get it done asap.

You can report a concern to social services and request that its recorded anonymously. The referral may have more merit if you are willing to share your details with the person taking the referral, but not with the subject of the referral (for example, so the person investigating knows who you are to be able to call you back, and can check out that you don't have an obvious agenda, eg that you're not someone with an agenda making malicious referrals, such as what can sometimes happen when theres a relationship break down)
You do need to consider that depending on the information shared, that the subject of the referral could potentially guess the source. An example of this is if say, a neighbour reports a specific incident they have heard through the walls and the subject would know that there is a limited number of people who could know that information.