Raising concerns and safeguarding issues

To raise a concern about adult abuse or neglect contact First Contact

0114 273 4908 Open 24 hours, 7 days a week

Howden House 1 Union Street Sheffield S1 2SH

For professionals raising safeguarding concerns please click on and complete the following Safeguarding Adult Concern form

Incident Reporting

The Incident Reporting Form (IRF) is the method by which Assessment and Care Management colleagues can share service quality and provider performance information not warranting any further action under the safeguarding criteria. This includes reporting apparent ‘one-off’ incidents of poor practice which are not suspected as being abuse or neglect.

Introduction to the Incident Reporting Form

Incident Reporting Form

Concerns form for care homes 

Please use the Incident Reporting Form (IRF) to share service quality and provider performance information not warranting any further action under the safeguarding criteria). This includes reporting apparent ‘one-off’ incidents of poor practice which are not suspected as being abuse or neglect.

Information reported via the IRF process makes a significant contribution to overall intelligence known within Sheffield City Council’s Quality & Performance (Q&P) team regarding service delivery and provider performance. 

The Q&P team use information notified to them about provider concerns to help identify where seemingly ‘one-off’ issues may, in fact, be part of a wider trend of similar issues or other recurrent problems within a provider.