Beginning March 20, WhistleblowersUK is kicking off its 1st Annual Whistleblowing Awareness Week. Hosted jointly by WhistleblowersUK and the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Whistleblowing, this event will span the entire week and bring together leading voices in the whistleblower sphere in order to advocate for stronger, more protective laws in the UK and beyond.

Georgina Halford-Hall, CEO of WhistleblowersUK, recently joined Whistleblower Network News’ (WNN) podcast to discuss the upcoming event.

“Whistleblowing Awareness Week will help to debunk some of these strange ideas that whistleblowers in the UK are different than whistleblowers anywhere else,” Halford-Hall said.

Halford-Hall was joined by WNN Contributing Editor Jane Turner and whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn, who will be appearing in London next week. WNN is a sponsor of the event alongside D.C.-based whistleblower law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP.

One objective of Whistleblowing Awareness Week is to raise support for The Whistleblowing Bill. Introduced in April of 2022 by member of Parliament and chair of the APPG for Whistleblowing Mary Robinson, and sponsored in the House of the Lords by Baroness Kramer, the bill aims to:

• protect all whistleblowers and those associated with whistleblowers;
• set mandatory minimum standards for policies and procedures and investigations of protected disclosures;
• create a new judicial process for deciding disputes arising from whistleblowing;
• impose fines...

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