Assess, compare, and strengthen your speak-up system with the Whistleblowing Benchmark.
Protect’s Whistleblowing Benchmark is a diagnostic tool that evaluates how well your organisation’s whistleblowing arrangements work in practice.
The Benchmark tests three core areas and is available at three levels so you can choose the depth of assessment you need. The outcome is clear, practical insight you can act on to reduce risk and build trust.
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Benchmark levels explained.
The Whistleblowing Benchmark helps organisations understand their current arrangements, identify improvement areas, and gain confidence through expert review. There are three levels to choose from:
Diagnostic
A structured self-assessment of governance, operations, and engagement to provide a clear snapshot of what is working, where gaps exist, and which areas need priority attention.
Comparative
Includes everything in Level 1 plus peer benchmarking (size, jurisdiction, sector.) Understand how your arrangements compare with peers, giving context to your results and informing board-level decisions and investment priorities.
Audit
Combines the Comparative assessment with expert review and commentary from Protect’s legal and whistleblowing specialists. Produces a board-ready report with independent assurance and bespoke actionable recommendations.
How the Benchmark helps your organisation.
The Whistleblowing Benchmark gives you a structured, evidence-based assessment of your systems, culture, and governance.
Clear, evidence-based assessment of current arrangements.
The Benchmark provides a structured evaluation of Governance, Operations, and Engagement. We assess policies, reporting channels, oversight, confidentiality, staff training, and confidence. This gives a detailed picture of what is working well, where weaknesses exist, and the areas that need priority attention.
Practical recommendations you can implement immediately.
The Benchmark produces actionable guidance linked to each area of improvement. Whether you need to clarify reporting channels, define roles such as the Whistleblowers’ Champion, or enhance staff communications, you receive a pragmatic roadmap that helps your organisation act quickly and effectively.
Comparative insight to benchmark performance.
Opt for the Comparative tier to understand how your arrangements compare with peers in your sector. This contextual information helps Boards and senior leaders identify whether gaps are specific to your organisation or common across the sector, and guides investment towards the areas with greatest impact.
Validation and expert review for senior stakeholders.
The Validation tier combines your assessment with review and commentary from Protect’s legal and whistleblowing experts. This produces a board-ready report demonstrating independent assurance to senior leaders and regulators. Organisations choosing Validation receive expert-backed recommendations that are practical, implementable, and credible.
Don’t just take our word for it.
Hear from the organisations and leaders we’ve supported.
Protect’s Benchmark has been so helpful in showing us our gaps against best practice in relation to policy and procedure, communications and training, and investigations, resolution and feedback.
[The Benchmark] helped us to highlight further improvement opportunities for G4S's whistleblowing arrangements.
[Protect's] benchmarking exercise has helped us to validate our Speak Up arrangements and learn from emerging best practices across a range of industries.
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