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All Reasonable Steps: Why training is at the heart of preventing sexual harassment, and what good actually looks like.
Read full story: All Reasonable Steps: Why training is at the heart of preventing sexual harassment, and what good actually looks like.From 30th October 2026, the Employment Rights Act (ERA) raises the responsibility on UK employers to prevent sexual harassment from ‘reasonable steps’ to ‘all reasonable steps’. That shift has implications across policies, reporting routes, training, investigations and governance. Two things are worth understanding from the outset. First, the standard is evidential – a tribunal will…
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What Should a Company Look for in an Outsourced Whistleblowing Service?
The outsourced whistleblowing service market contains a wide range of providers – from technology platforms that automate intake to full-service operations with experienced human staff, case management infrastructure, and documented escalation protocols. For a buyer evaluating options, the challenge is not finding a provider; it is knowing which capabilities actually matter and how to test…
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How Can an Organisation Select a Global Whistleblowing Solution?
Selecting a whistleblowing solution for a single-country operation is demanding enough. Selecting global whistleblowing solutions for an organisation that operates across multiple jurisdictions, employs people in different languages, and is subject to differing legal requirements in each market adds several layers of complexity – and raises the stakes for getting the decision wrong. A global…
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What Are the Advantages of an Independent Whistleblowing Service?
The case for creating an independent whistleblowing function rests on a single foundational argument: independence produces outcomes that internal provision cannot reliably replicate. An organisation that operates its own reporting channel, staffed by its own people and governed by its own processes, faces a structural tension that no amount of good intention resolves. The people…
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How Do Whistleblowing Services Support Small and Medium Enterprises?
Whistleblowing services are often discussed in the context large, complex organisations – multinationals with global operations, listed companies with regulatory obligations, public sector bodies with statutory duties. Smaller organisations tend to assume the subject does not apply to them, or that their size makes a formal whistleblowing service unnecessary. That assumption is worth examining. The…
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How Can Independent Whistleblowing Services Prevent Conflicts of Interest?
A whistleblowing service that is not genuinely independent is not a whistleblowing service. It is a reporting mechanism that creates the appearance of a safe channel while leaving the fundamental problem – the conflict of interest between the reporter and the organisation they are reporting about – entirely unresolved. Conflicts of interest in whistleblowing arise…
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How Do External Whistleblowing Services Differ from Internal Reporting?
Most organisations offer employees at least one internal reporting route to raise a concern – a line manager conversation, an HR helpline, an ethics email address. Many assume this is sufficient. The evidence suggests otherwise. External whistleblowing services and internal reporting channels are not interchangeable. They serve different populations of potential reporters, operate under different…