Our schools should be safe places for children to learn, play and thrive, and inspiring places for all school staff to work. All workplaces come across risks, malpractice or wrongdoing and will need effective arrangements in place to ensure that genuine concerns can be raised and issues addressed appropriately.
However, Protect’s report reveals that whistleblowing in educational settings has not been given the priority it deserves. Rather than being thanked for pointing out potential harms, many school staff experience detriment or even dismissal when they try to blow the whistle.
