All employers should have a Whistleblowing Policy in place to show that they comply with the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 provides all employees with employment protection if they disclose information of wrongdoing within their organisation.

A Whistleblowing Policy encourages employees to raise concerns about illegal activities and bad business practice internally thus preventing the organisation from receiving negative publicity.

This Whistleblowing Policy template complies with the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and the Bribery Act 2010 since it includes provisions dealing with the need to report any corruption related activity.

This Whistleblowing Policy is fully comprehensive, it sets out guidance and procedures for employees to follow should they encounter malpractice or wrongdoing at work. The Policy requests that any information of wrongdoing should be disclosed internally first to a responsible officer. Also it states that employees are given protection when they make such disclosure.

The Whistleblowing Policy contains the following clauses:

1. Introduction
2. Aims and Scope of this Policy
3. Harassment or Victimisation
4. Confidentiality
5. Anonymous Allegations
6. Untrue Allegations
7. How to Raise a Concern
8. How the Company will respond
9. The Responsible Officer
10. How the Matter can be Taken Further
11. Review

This Policy is in Microsoft Word format, written in plain English, easy to use and edit.