Whistleblowing Policy and Procedure for Schools

This policy does not cover the following cases:

• issues raised by the general public – in these instances the individual School’s Complaints Procedure should be used
• issues raised by an employee about their own employment – this is dealt with through the School’s grievance procedure
• concerns regarding Safeguarding will be raised under the Whistleblowing Policy to ensure that the employee or worker raising the concern is protected by Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. However, the concern itself may have to be dealt with under the Managing Allegations Policy
• this policy is not to be used as an appeal mechanism for other procedures i.e. following an unfavourable outcome from a grievance procedure unless employees/workers feel that the process in another procedure was significantly and seriously compromised
• employees and workers must not use dismissal or redundancy selection as sole reasons for making a disclosure under this policy