Whistleblowing policy

Monitoring and control

The head of internal audit and risk will provide an annual report to the audit committee which has responsibilities for overseeing the effectiveness of our governance arrangements. All reporting will be anonymised. It will only identify common themes, numbers of disclosures year on year and highlight actions taken to improve systems and policies.

All personal data collected and used in the handling of Protected Disclosure concerns is processed in accordance with relevant data protection legislation and council policies.

Our governance group will monitor the effectiveness of this policy.

This policy will be reviewed every three years.