Whistleblowers are the early warning system for our society. They speak up when they witness wrongdoing, often at considerable personal risk, to prevent harm to the public, protect public finances, and uphold ethical standards. Despite their crucial role in exposing corruption, fraud, and safety issues, many whistleblowers find their concerns dismissed or buried—leaving serious problems to fester until they become full-blown scandals or tragedies.
At Protect, the UK’s leading whistleblowing charity, we have called for organisations to support the creation of a legal duty for companies to investigate whistleblowing. With the support from of Transparency International UK, Whistleblowing International Network (WIN), the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition, Spotlight on Corruption, Parrhesiaand Professor Robert Barrington, we have proposed a much-needed amendment to the Employment Rights Bill, which requires employers to take reasonable steps to investigate facts brought to them by a whistleblower.
The government are full steam ahead with their Employment Rights Bill and Security Minister Dan Jarvis has set anti-corruption as a government priority, promising a new strategy before the summer recess. We face a once in a generation opportunity to improve the UK’s outdated whistleblowing laws and to, in Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s own words, ‘make Britain the anti-corruption capital of the world’.
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