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Whistleblowing Policy

Meeting: 28/03/2013 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 52)

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To provide the Committee with an update on the effectiveness of the Council’s Whistleblowing Policy and a breakdown of the number of reports received during 2012/13.

Minutes:

The Committee considered a report which provided an update on the effectiveness of the Council’s Whistleblowing Policy and a breakdown of the number of reports received during 2012/13. 

 

It was important to regularly review the effectiveness of the Council’s policy to ensure that it remained compliant with best practice and was effective in meeting its purpose.  The current policy had been reviewed by Internal Audit to ensure that it had been developed in line with current best practice identified in Whistleblowing Arrangement Code of Practice Publicly Available Specification 1998:2008 – produced by the British Standards Institute in conjunction with Public Concern at Work.

 

During 2012-13 six whistleblowing reports had been received by Internal Audit, of which three were investigated and resulted in remedial action being taken within the service in question. 

 

A further review of the Policy would be carried out in 2013-14 and would include a survey of staff awareness and views on the arrangements.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the report be noted and the proposed actions for the ongoing review of the Council’s whistleblowing arrangements be endorsed.