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Weekly News Round-Up / 30 Jan

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Your weekly dose of what's up in whistleblowing. Whistleblowers at the heart of government. A GCHQ employee who was fired after publicly asking for the resignation of the then cabinet secretary Simon Case in the final weeks of Johnson’s government is bringing a claim under whistleblowing legislation.  (The Guardian). + A new complaint made by ... Read more

New Update to Ireland’s Whistleblowing Legislation

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Everything you need to know about Ireland’s protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022 In April 2019, the EU Parliament passed an EU Directive on Whistleblowing (“the Directive”), to create a uniform standard of protection for whistleblowers across the Member States. Deputy Michael McGrath, Minister of Finance for Ireland, described the Directive as, ‘among the most far-reaching ... Read more

National Security Bill – Lords

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In this blog Protect Legal Adviser Phoebe Mather reflects on the National Security Bill’s journey through the House of Lords, explaining why it is so vital a public interest defence be added. Hot on the heels of failed attempts in the House of Commons to amend the National Security Bill to include a public interest ... Read more

Weekly News Round-Up / 23 Jan

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Your weekly dose of what's up in whistleblowing.  Momentum is building behind allegations against the Police and its regulator. Trisha Napier has exposed how IOPC senior managers interfered in an investigation into police gross misconduct investigation into stop and search of black athlete Bianca Williams stop and search. (BBC, Protect) + Met Police commissioner Sir ... Read more

Standards watchdog restates that ethical values need to be at centre of Whitehall

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Protect welcomes the new report from the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Leadership in Practice, as a helpful reminder that public sector organisations benefit from strong speak-up cultures and will reap the rewards of investing in high standards of behavior. We share the concern that crises in our public services often stem from failure ... Read more

Protect & IOPC whistleblower’s Trisha Napier Statement

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Background This is a statement from Trisha Napier, IOPC whistleblower and Protect, the UK’s leading whistleblowing charity.  Trisha Napier was the lead investigator for the investigation into whether Metropolitan Police officers committed misconduct when they stopped and searched two black Olympic athletes, Bianca Williams and Ricardo dos Santos in July 2020.  Trisha in a Newsnight interview, states ... Read more

Speaking up in public services  

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Today we read that the London Fire Brigade has been put into special measures, as a result of a report finding it was misogynist and racist.  Nafir Azal’s Independent Review into the culture at the London Fire Brigade comes hot on the heels of the Casey Review on the Met Police. Both identified serious problems of ... Read more

Protect Non-Executive Directors, Trustee and Governor Whistleblowing Training

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Non-Executive Directors, Trustees and Governors often uncover wrongdoing or malpractice within their organisation as a result of their strategic oversight. As a result of their position at the top of organisations, they are often the persons to whom staff will raise or escalate their concerns. Yet, despite playing a vital role in their organisation’s whistleblowing ... Read more

Protected Disclosures and Whistleblowing

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If you speak up about something concerning you at work, in order to be protected by whistleblowing law, the concern you raise must be a 'protected disclosure'. In this video, we explain what 'protected disclosures' are, why they are important and the legal tests a whistleblower needs to meet in order for their disclosure to ... Read more

43J: A Protection against NDAs

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NDAs are alarmingly being used by organisations to cover up wrongdoing and intimidate whistleblowers into silence. In this video, we explain how section 43J of the Employment Rights Act 1996 may help protect whistleblowers and stop them from being silenced, even if they have signed an NDA. Although 43J is an important protection for whistleblowers, ... Read more