Whistleblowing and Reporting Channel Effectiveness Audit
Audit your whistleblowing and reporting channels to see whether staff can raise concerns safely and whether reports get acted on.
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Review our reporting channel. Policy text: [POLICY_TEXT]. Channels: [CHANNELS]. Reports received and outcomes last year, anonymised: [REPORT_SUMMARY]. Staff survey comments on speaking up: [SURVEY_COMMENTS]. Check clarity, anonymity options, protection from retaliation, response time, independent handling of concerns about managers, and feedback to reporters. Look for barriers in the survey comments. Return a rubric score 1 to 5 per area with evidence, five improvements, and a communication plan to remind staff. Legal protections are [VERIFY] with an adviser for [JURISDICTION]. Add a worked rubric: clarity 3, anonymity 2, protection from retaliation 3, speed of response 2, independence 1, feedback 2, total 13 out of 30. Weakest: independence for concerns about managers. Fixes: add an external hotline or board member contact. Add a plan to test the channel with an invented report and time the response. Add a worked test: submit an invented report through each channel, time the acknowledgement, check who sees it, and verify that a concern about a manager does not go to that manager. Calculate the average acknowledgement time across channels. Add an annual anonymous survey question: would you feel safe reporting a serious concern here? Report the percentage who say yes.
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