Whistleblowing guidance for employers
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Get an overview of whistleblowing policies and procedures as an employer, to support your organisation's commitment to handling wrongdoing in the workplace.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Get an overview of whistleblowing policies and procedures as an employer, to support your organisation's commitment to handling wrongdoing in the workplace. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Overview of whistleblowing law
- What protection is available
- Who is protected
- 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
- Handling a whistleblowing disclosure
- Engage with the worker
- Decide what steps to take
- Confidentiality
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Penalties
- Best practice whistleblowing policy
Source and licence
Department for Business and Trade
AttributionDepartment for Business and Trade, ‘Whistleblowing guidance for employers’ (updated 6 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