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Whistleblowing frameworks provide many benefits, including the opportunity to identify and deal with problems before they grow, and to protect your organisation and its people.

Managed effectively, whistleblowing can transform the culture of your organisation, identify fraud, save money, and deal with weaknesses in controls quickly.

As the laws and regulations around whistleblowing evolve, establishing and maintaining an effective whistleblowing framework is essential. From assurance about your processes to guidance on implementing updates or resources to address capacity issues, we can assist you every step of the way.

Whistleblowing specialists

Our team has handled hundreds of whistleblowing matters and comprises specialists in internal investigations, whistleblowing, and auditing culture.

Compliant solutions

We support you in complying with UK laws and regulations, as well as local requirements wherever you do business.

Investigation team development

We work alongside you to provide training and to support the development of your internal investigation team. 

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Helping an infrastructure project uncover unknowns

The challenge

With fraud risks increasing in a complex supply chain, an infrastructure project needed to create a safe route for stakeholders to speak out about concerns.

The solution

We designed a framework tailored to the organisation’s scale and complexity, with multiple reporting channels, efficient triage and strong safeguards for whistleblowers.

The result

The framework empowered stakeholders to speak up, significantly boosting reporting rates and enabling management to uncover and resolve critical issues more effectively.

Supporting a building society to do the right thing

The challenge

A client wanted reassurance it was meeting financial regulations, concerned about an absence of whistleblowing reports from its employees.

The solution

Our team of whistleblowing specialists conducted workshops with employees.  We reviewed the policies and validated how they were working in practice.

The result

We discovered the low reporting stemmed from a strong open culture. After a few tweaks to the investigation process, the client was ready to stay compliant with confidence.

Why Grant Thornton

With us you’ll get the right support when, where and how you need it most.

We bring an empathetic, professional and data-driven approach to provide robust, repeatable investigation services that help build trust in your organisation. The team will be tailored to you, drawing on the skills of corporate investigators and specialists in organisational culture who all have experience of whistleblowing matters.

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General Counsel: Responding to whistleblowers

Ensuring legal compliance and encouraging a speak up culture are key priorities if you receive an account of potential misconduct from a whistle blower.

Ben Kenny explains how a clear framework can help you triage and respond to reports efficiently, and keep whistle blowers on side and engaged throughout the process.

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Speaking up on the whistleblowing framework

The Department for Business and Trade recently commissioned us to independently review the whistleblowing framework in England, Wales, and Scotland.

ECCTA failure to prevent fraud

Assess your organisation’s readiness

There are some 'no regret' steps that large organisations can take to prepare for full enforcement of the ECCTA.