Report financial irregularity in a trade union or employers' association
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Types of financial irregularities the Certification Officer (CO) can investigate and how to ask the CO to conduct an investigation.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Types of financial irregularities the Certification Officer (CO) can investigate and how to ask the CO to conduct an investigation. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- What the CO can investigate
- The CO's approach to dealing with concerns
- If the CO cannot handle your concern
- Who can ask the CO to investigate
- How to raise a concern with the CO
- When you contact the CO, you will need to:
- After you raise a concern
- Asking you for more information
- Meeting with the union or employers' association
- Asking the organisation for a response
- Appointing inspectors
- Anonymity
- Possible outcomes
- No action is taken
- The CO resolves the issue without inspectors
- The CO appoints inspectors
Source and licence
Certification Officer
AttributionCertification Officer, ‘Report financial irregularity in a trade union or employers' association’ (updated 28 February 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026