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Thirty-Sixth Report - Investigation into whistleblowing in the civil service

Public Accounts Committee HC 457 Published 25 May 2024
Report Status
Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations
24 items (6 recs)
Government Response
AI assessment · 23 of 24 classified
Accepted 17
Accepted in Part 3
Acknowledged 3
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Recommendations

3 results
20 Accepted in Part

Good whistleblowing practices exist but are not consistently shared across civil service departments.

Recommendation
There are some examples of good practice across the civil service when it comes to whistleblowing processes, but they are not always shared between departments and agencies. For example, HMRC has ‘help cards’ to improve the quality of information on … Read more
Government Response Summary
The Cabinet Office will build on existing work to share insight and best practice, work with organizations that have a mature model and explore how the experience to maturity can be shared across government and explore the development of a mentoring system for Nominated Officers with the community of practitioners so they can support and learn from each other.
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22 Accepted in Part

Cabinet Office has scope to do more to actively surface and share whistleblowing best practices.

Recommendation
The Cabinet Office said it could play a role in collating information across the civil service and share back what works well and what departments can do more of.56 For example, the NAO reported that some departments do not have … Read more
Government Response Summary
The Cabinet Office will build on existing work to share insight and best practice, work with organizations that have a mature model and explore how the experience to maturity can be shared across government and explore the development of a mentoring system for Nominated Officers with the community of practitioners so they can support and learn from each other.
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24 Accepted in Part

Larger departments should provide more support and expertise to smaller agencies on whistleblowing.

Recommendation
We were interested to hear from departments on any improvements that they think can be made in terms of how they can help maintain a high standard of whistleblowing across the civil service. DWP suggested that large departments have a … Read more
Government Response Summary
The Cabinet Office will build on existing work to share insight and best practice, work with organizations that have a mature model and explore how the experience to maturity can be shared across government and explore the development of a mentoring system for Nominated Officers with the community of practitioners so they can support and learn from each other.
HM Treasury
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