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Summary of City of London breakfast briefing: Fostering a positive speak up, listen up culture

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THE City of London Corporation hosted a breakfast briefing on best practice speak up/listen up arrangements with presentations by Protect Chief Executive Francesca West and Banking Standards Board Senior Behavioural Scientist Kate Coombs. Opening the briefing, Catherine McGuinness, Chair of the Policy & Resources Committee at the City of London Corporation, said, ’Integrating positive speak up … Read more

Protect responds to new laws to crack down on NDAs

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Protect Head of Policy Andrew Pepper-Parsons said: “It is good news for whistleblowers that the Government are proposing a crackdown on NDAs with new legislation to prevent the cover up of workplace harassment, discrimination and assault. “Protect were invited to give evidence to both the Women & Equalities Select Committee and the Government’s consultation on … Read more

Protect responds to anti-semitism in the Labour Party and NDA gags

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Protect Chief Executive Francesca West has responded to the Panorama programme on anti-Semitism in the Labour party and the use of NDAs to gag whistleblowers, which aired this week. The programme featured eight whistleblowers who spoke of feeling undermined by senior Labour bosses in their efforts to speak up and tackle anti-semitism. They claim there … Read more

MP Backbench debate on whistleblowing – a summary of key points

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A backbench debate led by MP Norman Lamb took place in the House of Commons (3 July 2019) to discuss whistleblowing, the current legal landscape and the urgent need for reform of the current whistleblowing legislation.   Protect attended with Dr Chris Day, the NHS whistleblower whose case was heralded by MPs in the debate as an illustration of the … Read more

Protect attends House of Commons debate on whistleblowing

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Protect has briefed Norman Lamb MP on why whistleblowing legislation, the Public Interest Disclosure Act needs reforming. We will write a summary of the debate, or watch it live from 3-5pm today, July 3 on Parliament TV Read our brief here: Parliamentary Briefing for Backbench Whistleblowing Debate July 2019  

Stronger whistleblowing culture can help repair Third Sector public trust and confidence

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This week the Charity Commission published its report into the Oxfam scandal and severely criticised Oxfam for the way it dealt with claims of serious sexual misconduct by its staff in Haiti. The commission said there was a “culture of poor behaviour” at the charity, and issued it with an official warning over its “mismanagement”. … Read more

Anti-corruption group Xnet set to make Spain first EU country to adopt Whistleblowers’ Directive

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A draft law proposed by Spanish anti-corruption activist group Xnet, is set to make Spain the first country in the European Union to transpose the European Directive for the Whistleblowers’ Protection. The Draft Law was registered shortly after the opening of the registry in the Parliament, on 30 May. It was registered with the support … Read more

Women & Equalities Committee NDA report highlights urgent need for reform

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The Women and Equalities Committee have  published (June 11) their long awaited report on the use of Non Disclosure Agreements in discrimination cases – which clearly shows there is much room for improvement. The inquiry – which Protect were asked to respond to by the Women and Equalities Committee – follows the committee’s work on … Read more

Protect partnership with Charity Commission goes live

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Whistleblowing isn’t easy. We know that. Protect has been advising whistleblowers how to safely raise concerns for the past 25 years through our confidential advice line. In that time, our trained advisers have handled more than 40,000 whistleblowing cases. Calls to our advice line from people wanting advice on how to raise a concern from … Read more