Whistleblowing: for prescribed persons
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Advice for prescribed persons on how to deal with whistleblowing disclosures.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Advice for prescribed persons on how to deal with whistleblowing disclosures. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Overview of whistleblowing
- What qualifies as whistleblowing
- Disclosures of wrongdoing that count as whistleblowing
- Public interest test
- Who workers can make a disclosure to
- Disclosures to third parties
- Role of a prescribed persons in whistleblowing
- Non-protected disclosures
- Duty to report on whistleblowing disclosures
- What counts as taking further action
- What to include in a summary of the type of action taken
- Protecting confidentiality
- When you must publish the report
Source and licence
Department for Business and Trade
AttributionDepartment for Business and Trade, ‘Whistleblowing: for prescribed persons’ (updated 7 April 2026), 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
- v1.016/09/2026