Protected Disclosures (Whistleblowing)
Ensure your feel confident and protected in reporting unethical behaviour and understand their rights when blowing the whistle.
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This course provides an overview of whistleblowing, including what it is, who can be a whistleblower, and the types of conduct that should be reported. It explains what disclosures are protected under the Act, the protections available to whistleblowers, and how to make or receive a disclosure. The course also covers confidentiality, the role of the Ombudsman, and special rules for intelligence and security organisations.
Course Overview
Course summary
By providing a whistleblowing policy and training, employees of an organisation can feel confident in reporting unethical conduct, dishonest or illegal activity.
Laws protect whistleblowers and breaches can incur heavy costs for organisation or individual, including fines and imprisonment and loss of reputation.
Key modules
- What is a whistleblower?
- Misconduct
- Who can be a whistleblower?
- What kind of disclosure will be a protected disclosure?
- When will you be entitled to protection?
- How to make a disclosure
- Special rules for intelligence and security organisations
- Confidentiality and anonymity of disclosure
- Protections for whistleblowers
- Role of the Ombudsman
- When making a disclosure
- When receiving a disclosure
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to understand:
- What whistleblowing is;
- What type of conduct should be reported;
- The protections to whistleblowers under the Act;
- What kind of disclosures are protected by the Act.
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